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October 2019 Draft California Arts Framework: Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Dance
Introduction to Dance
Emphasis Quote
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful… This is
power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de Mille—Dancer, Choreographer
Why Dance?
Dance is an embodied way of knowing and understanding one’s self, others, and the
world. Martha Graham says, “Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” As such,
dance provides unique and unparalleled ways of knowing and expressing. Dance
education in California’s public schools enriches students’ lives, by providing
challenging, engaging, personally fulfilling, accessible, diverse, and creative learning
experiences. The study of dance develops lifelong creative and artistically literate
individuals. Dance enables the individual to actualize abstract ideas, to express
feelings, and to inquire into and investigate how to solve problems.
Students become artistically literate in dance by creating dance, responding to dance,
performing dance, and connecting to dance. The California Arts Standards in dance
articulate learning expectations that support students’ development of artistic literacy by
illustrating the actual processes in which dancers engage as creative individuals. A
sequential, standards-based education in dance, delivered throughout the TK–12 years,
allows students to become increasingly fluent in dance as they engage in the creative
practices of dance and benefit from opportunities to perform and respond to dance.
Students connect, synthesize, and combine dance knowledge and personal
experiences with disciplined practice in ways that deepen their understanding of the
world as inquisitive self-motivated lifelong learners.
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The California Arts Standards in dance articulate learning expectations that support
students’ development of artistic literacy by illustrating the actual processes in which
dancers engage in as creative individuals. The Arts Standards articulate the lifelong
goals for all students in all of the arts disciplines. These lifelong goals are identified in
the following categories:
The Arts as Communication
The Arts as a Creative Personal Realization
The Arts as Culture, History, and Connectors
The Arts as Means to Well Being
The Arts as Community Engagement
The Arts as Profession
The lifelong goal categories translate in dance as follows.
Dance as Communication
Dance literate citizens use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and metaphors to
independently create and perform works that express and communicate their own
ideas. They analyze and interpret the artistic communication of others. Dancers know
how to use a myriad of inspirational starting points to create and perform pieces.
Dancers use choreographic devices to demonstrate fluency and personal voice in
designing and composing original works. They experiment and take risks to discover
personal voice to communicate artistic intent.
Dance as a Creative Personal Realization
Dance literate citizen dancers develop a life-long passion towards their discipline. They
seek out opportunities to continue honing their craft, using dance as a means to express
themselves. Their artistic competence results in creating, performing, and responding to
dance throughout adulthood.
Dance as Culture, History, and Connectors
Dance literate citizens relate ideas and works with societal, culture, and historical
contexts from varied historical periods and cultures to deepen understanding. They
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actively seek and appreciate diverse forms and genres of dance. They understand the
enduring quality and significance of these diverse forms and genres of dance. They
seek to understand relationships of different genres. Dancers cultivate habits of
searching for and identifying patterns and relationships between dance and other
knowledge.
Dance as Means to Wellbeing
Dance literate citizens find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, meaning, and
other life enhancing qualities through their participation in dance. They understand and
employ safe, healthful practices using appropriate warm up strategies, nutrition, and
injury prevention. They engage with others in dance environments in creative, positive,
and collaborative ways with respect to self as well as the beliefs, culture, gender, and
ethnic backgrounds of others.
Dance as Community Engagement
Dance literate citizens seek and support dance from a variety of cultures, societies,
historical periods, communities, and perspectives in a variety of settings including
informal, formal, and social. They engage in dance by participating, watching, and
discussing various forms and genres using dancer terminology. They continue the
legacy of dance by engaging local, state, national, and global communities as well as
future generations in dance. Dancers advocate for and practice inclusivity promoting the
idea that “dance is for everyone.” They promote dance as an art, cultural connection,
enjoyment, and education.
Dance as Profession
Dance literate citizens appreciate the value of dance as a profession by supporting,
engaging, and funding dance. Dancers with ongoing interests may pursue a career in
dance, thereby enriching local, state, national and global communities and economies.
They understand the vast career options in dance and may choose a career related to
dance and seek out various avenues to present knowledge and understanding.
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Contents of This Chapter
Dance Standards TK–12
o The Structure of the Dance Standards
o Grade Band TK–2
o Grade Band 3–5
o Grade Band 6–8
o High School Proficient
o High School Accomplished
o High School Advanced
Assessment of Student Learning in Dance
o Summative Assessment
o Formative Assessment
o Methods of Assessment
o Growth Model of Assessment
Supporting Learning for all Students in Dance
o Universal Design for Learning and Differentiation
o Culturally Relevant and Linguistic Teaching
o Students Who Are English Learners
o Students With Disabilities
o Students Who Are Gifted and Talented
Considerations for Instruction in Dance
o Approaches and Methodologies in Dance Instruction
o Considerations for a Safe Dance Studio and Environment
o Considerations for Dance Space and Facilities
o Considerations for Dance Materials and Resources
Primary Sources in Dance
Artistic Citizenship for Dance
o Student Learning in Artistic Citizenship
o Implications for Teachers
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Developing Artistic Entrepreneurs
Conclusion
Glossary of Terms for California Arts Standards: Dance
Works Cited
Dance Standards TK–12
Emphasis Quote
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp—Dancer, Choreographer
The dance standards are designed to create a progression of student learning in dance
while developing each student’s autonomy, technical dance skills, and personal artistic
voice. An understanding of the dance standards, their structure, purposes, and
relationships between the structural elements of the dance standards is necessary to
support effective TK–12 instructional design.
The Structure of the Dance Standards
The dance standards are comprised of four artistic processes, overarching anchor
standards, related enduring understandings and essential questions, process
components, and student performance standards. The artistic processes and anchor
standards are common to all disciplines, while the enduring understandings, essential
questions, process components, and student performance standards are distinct to
dance.
Using the elements of the dance standards to design instruction helps students to
achieve the performance standards. Teachers use essential questions to guide students
through process components, which lead to enduring understandings, which are
connected to anchor standards that are shared across five disciplines. Throughout the
process dance students are creating, performing, responding, and connecting.
Teachers can begin to design their instruction from any entry point within the artistic
processes to facilitate students’ development as dance literate individuals.
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Anchor Standards
The dance standards include two types of standards: the Anchor Standards, which are
the same for all arts disciplines and for all grade levels; and the Student Performance
Standards, which are specific to dance and to each grade level or proficiency level.
The Anchor Standards articulate the generalized outcomes of students’ TK–12 learning,
shared by all five arts disciplines. The Anchor Standards are not the discipline-specific
Student Performance Standards, but serve to provide the overarching outcomes within
dance each year.
Artistic Processes in Dance
The dance standards identify four artistic processes: Creating, Performing, Responding,
and Connecting. In the Creating process, students conceive and develop new dance
ideas and work. Students learn and gain the ability to communicate and create using
the unique academic and technical languages of dance. In the Performing process,
students realize dance ideas and work through interpretation and presentation. This
process requires students to share their work with others—to make their learning public
—as an intrinsic element of dance. In the Responding process, students understand
and evaluate how dance conveys meaning to themselves as a dancer and to the viewer
or audience throughout time. In the Connecting process, students relate dance ideas
and work with personal meaning and external context.
It is vital to understand that the four artistic processes and their related process
components within the standards offer students multiple entry points into all aspects of
dance (Figure 3.1). Instructional design that begins with and flows through one or more
of the artistic processes within a unit of study can promote student development,
deepen student understanding, and facilitate student engagement.
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Figure 3.1: Artistic Processes and Process Components for Dance
The structure of the dance standards enables students to demonstrate their dance
knowledge and critical thinking and develop the depth of their understanding as they
grow in the artistic processes. Teachers can create a balanced instructional approach
by engaging students first in an artistic process, then build in one or more of the
remaining processes. Teachers can also engage students in multiple processes
simultaneously to support learning through working and creating authentically in dance.
The combination and delivery of the processes is guided by the teacher’s intended
learning outcomes. Well-designed instruction, including assessment, supports students
in progressing through the grade and proficiency levels and in demonstrating, in multiple
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ways, what they know and are able to do. Throughout a grade span or proficiency level,
instruction would address all artistic processes providing a balanced approach to the
course.
Process Components in Dance
Another structural element of the dance standards are the process components. They
are aligned to the four artistic processes. The process components are operational
verbs that define the behaviors and artistic practices that students engage in as they
work through the artistic processes. The process components provide a path for
students to flow through Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting within
dance, but are not linear or prescriptive actions. Rather they are fluid and dynamic
guideposts throughout the dance making process; a student can and should enter and
reenter the process at varying points depending on the circumstance(s) or purpose(s).
Similarly, all process components do not require completion each time the student
engages in the process. Students’ ability to carry out these operational verbs enables
them to work in and through the process independently. The process components for
dance are as follows:
Table 3.1. Process Components for Dance:
Creating Performing Responding ConnectingExplore
Plan
Revise
Express
Embody
Present
Analyze
Interpret
Critique
Synthesize
Relate
The process components, combined with the Enduring Understandings (EU) and
Essential Questions (EQ), promote student discovery and development of their own
movement sensibilities and abilities as they mature in dance. Teachers planning
instruction can use the process components to direct student-based inquiries.
Instruction that fosters student inquiry in dance requires design that builds students’
creative capacities as well as their dance academic knowledge and technical skills.
Effective instructional activities provide students with opportunities to actualize the
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process component verbs, and include opportunities in dance to explore, express,
embody, present, interpret, and critique.
Student Performance Standards in Dance
The student performance standards translate the anchor standards into explicit,
measurable learning goals in dance for each grade level, proficiency level, or for high
school course level. They identify the action, behavior, thinking, understanding, and skill
that a student must do to demonstrate achievement.
Performance standards are the end-of-the-year or end-of-course expectations for
learning and development. The standards describe what a student needs to do as an
outcome of learning specific content and developing skills, rather than identifying the
specific content and skills for instruction. The content and pedagogy are determined by
the teacher as a way to prepare and equip students to demonstrate proficiency in the
standards. Students need substantial practice related to the performance standards
throughout the year to demonstrate increasing development and movement toward
independence.
Student Performance Standards Grade Levels and Proficiency Levels
The student performance standards are written by grade level for pre-kindergarten
through grade eight in dance (PK–8). The standards articulate, for PK–8, the grade-by-
grade student achievement in dance.
Secondary education includes three proficiency levels of standards that articulate
student achievement in dance and build upon the foundations of a PK–8 dance
education. As students work through and develop in dance throughout high school they
progress through the proficiency levels. The Proficient level generally applies to the year
one and two high school student. The Accomplished level generally applies to the year
three and four high school student. The Advanced level is an additional proficiency level
for students working at a level beyond the typical four-year high school student.
Advanced students may study dance outside of the school and engage in dance as an
amateur, semi-professional, or professional. Advanced standards may also apply to
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students in Advanced Placement (AP) courses and/or work in collaboration with
International Baccalaureate (IB) courses.
The following figure describes the three levels of dance proficiency in high school.
Figure 3.2 Dance Student Performance Standards Proficiency Levels
High SchoolProficient
High SchoolAccomplished
High SchoolAdvanced
A level of achievement attainable by most students who complete a high- school level course in dance (or equivalent) beyond the foundation of quality PK–8 instruction.
A level of achievement attainable by most students who complete a rigorous sequence of high-school level courses (or equivalent) beyond the Proficient level.
A level and scope of achievement that significantly exceeds the Accomplished level. Achievement at this level is indisputably rigorous and substantially expands students’ knowledge, skills, and understandings beyond the expectations articulated for Accomplished achievement.
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High SchoolProficient
High SchoolAccomplished
High SchoolAdvanced
Students at the Proficient level are able to:
use foundational technical and expressive skills and understandings in dance necessary to solve assigned problems or prepare assigned repertoire for presentation;
make appropriate choices with some support;
be prepared for active engagement in their community;
understand dance as important form of personal realization and wellbeing; and
make connections between dance, history, culture and other learning.
Students at the Accomplished level are—with minimal assistance—able to:
identify or solve dance problems based on their interests or for a particular purpose;
conduct research to inform artistic decisions;
create and refine dance performances that demonstrate technical proficiency, personal communication and expression;
use dance for personal realization and wellbeing; and
participate in dance beyond the school environment.
Students at the Advanced level are able to:
independently identify challenging dance problems based on their interests or for specific purposes and bring creativity and insight to finding artistic solutions;
use dance as an effective avenue for personal communication, demonstrating a higher level of technical and expressive proficiency characteristic of honors or college level work;
exploit their personal strengths and apply strategies to overcome personal challenges as dance learners; and
take a leadership role in dance within and beyond the school environment.
The Student Performance Standards are designed for students to progress through the
grade levels and proficiency levels demonstrating what they know and are able to do.
The Student Performance Standards become more specific and multifaceted in their
depth and rigor as students progress. Proficiency levels are student-dependent, and
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should by applied by teachers with an appropriate understanding of the student. For
example, a seventh grade student may have gaps in their dance understanding or skill
development and as a result may need to practice and master lower grade level
standards prior to working toward the seventh grade standards. Similarly, another
seventh grade student may progress quickly and move toward the eighth standards
before the end of the year. Teachers should use assessments to inform the specific
needs of individual students.
Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions in Dance
The dance standards include Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Essential Questions
(EQs) to help teachers and students organize the information, skills, and experiences
within artistic processes, and allow full exploration of the dimensions of dance learning.
EUs and EQs address the big ideas central to the discipline of dance. Organizing
learning and thinking around big ideas promotes the activation of prior knowledge and
student ability to grasp new information and skills and builds student capacity to transfer
information and skills to other contexts. When teachers implement and maintain
strategies to build metacognition, students can construct their own meaning and
understanding.
The EUs and EQs in the standards provide guidance in the potential types of
understandings and questions teachers may develop when designing units and lessons.
They are examples of the types of open-ended inquiries teachers may pose and the
lasting understanding students may reach in response. The EUs and EQs are not the
only aspects students may explore, nor are they prescriptive mandates for teachers. As
examples, they are designed to clarify the intentions and goals of the standards.
Examples of EUs and EQs for dance can be seen in the following tables. For the
complete set of all EUs and EQs, see the California Arts Standards.
Table 3.2: Artistic Process—Creating
Enduring Understanding Essential QuestionChoreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and
Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?
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Enduring Understanding Essential Questionideas into movement for artistic expression.
Table 3.3: Artistic Process—Performing
Enduring Understanding Essential QuestionSpace, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.
How do dancers work with space, time and energy to communicate artistic expression?
Table 3.4: Artistic Process—Responding
Enduring Understanding Essential QuestionDance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its meaning.
How is a dance understood?
Table 3.5: Artistic Process—Connecting
Enduring Understanding Essential QuestionAs dance is experienced, all personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
Additional discussion of the EUs and EQs is found in Chapter 2.
Coding of the Standards
An agreed-upon system for coding allows educators to reference the performance
standards more efficiently when planning lessons and units of study. The coding system
of the performance standards is illustrated in Figure 3.3 and described below. The full
code is located at the top of each column of the performance standards.
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Figure 3.3: Coding of the California Dance Standards
The order of coding for the standards is provided below with the codes indicated in
parentheses:
(1) The grade level appears first and is divided into these categories: Pre–K (PK);
Kindergarten (K); grades 1–8 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8); and the three proficiency
levels for high school, which are Proficient (Prof), Accomplished (Acc) and
Advanced (Adv).
(2) The artistic disciplines appear second: Dance (DA)
(3) The artistic processes appear third: Creating (Cr); Performing (Pr); Responding
(Re); and Connecting Cn).
(4) The anchor standards appear fourth. When an anchor standard has more than
one set of enduring understandings, essential questions, and process
components, numbers directly after the anchor standard indicate which set is
provided (e.g., 1, 2).
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(5) The sub-part of the performance standard appears last. These sub-parts
describe different aspects of the same standard.
Mastery of the Standards
The California Arts Standards for dance articulate the need for students to develop
autonomy, technical and artistic skills, and personal artistic voice. They encompass the
artistic processes of Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting to develop
artistic literacy. The four processes—with their related process components, enduring
understandings, essential questions, and student performance standards—intersect
with and complement one another and offer students multiple entry points into all
aspects of dance. Student mastery of the performance standards across all four of the
artistic processes and through each of the grade levels and/or proficiency bands should
be a goal. To accomplish this, throughout their school career students need ample and
sequential learning opportunities in dance to create, perform, respond, and connect.
Mastery of the standards also requires students to reflect on their development and
growth as they practice and refine their work over time. The process of reflecting gives
students options to self-regulate their own learning as they engage in their classroom
experiences, and is a fundamental component in the Universal Design for Learning
(UDL) guidelines (CAST 2018). When students develop skills to self-regulate, they can
assess their own growth and gain the self-discipline and resilience necessary for
learning dance. These self-reflective skills and habits learned through dance education
can transfer to other areas of their lives.
Grade Band TK–2
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You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is
freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.
Judith Jamison—Dancer, Choreographer
In transitional kindergarten through grade two, movement is an integral aspect of the
learning process. Young children are active and inquisitive, and acquire information
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through their senses and through their physical exploration. Dance provides
opportunities for young students to creatively express feelings and ideas informed by
their imagination and real lives.
Creating TK–2
In the Creating process, students develop a range of strategies for exploring and
improvising movement with teacher guidance. Students learn to observe and perceive
concepts, movements, and patterns in new ways, and to analyze the many possibilities
in stillness and movement. As students at this age are whole-body movers who tend
toward perpetual motion; balancing and holding stillness are significant learning
accomplishments. Students explore the elements of dance through multi-sensory
experiences, such as hearing, seeing, saying, and doing. Students discover ways to
change movements in both small and large ways. A teacher may guide students to
practice starting and stopping their locomotor movements with musical cues. Students
learn the elements of movement such as space, time, and force and can apply these
elements one at a time when called upon. A teacher might arrange students in a large
circle to practice with non-locomotor movements (e.g., stretching their bodies from their
arms to their toes, bending their knees, twisting their torso). As students demonstrate
the ability to choose and change movement to match musical cues, the teacher may
then increase the complexity of stimuli. The teacher may select objects that provide
differences in weight (e.g., one is heavy and one light), and provide prompts for
students to move with different weight qualities (e.g., move with heaviness or move with
lightness). Over time, students practice different ways to improvise or create movement
that has contrasting qualities.
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Table 3.6: Sample Performance Standards for Pre-K–2 Creating 1
PK.DA.Cr1 K.DA.Cr1 1.DA.Cr1 2.DA.Cr1a. Respond in movement to a variety of sensory stimuli (e.g., music/sound, visual, tactile).
a. Respond in movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance).
a. Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and identify the source.
a. Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and suggest additional sources for movement ideas.
Performing TK–2
Students begin to replicate movements with accuracy, remember sequences, and
connect movements together. Students learn basic anatomical principles and dance
skills that are foundational to many styles of dance such as bending knees before and
after jumps, stretching arms in different directions, and using the spine as one travels
across space or on the floor. Students may begin this practice by walking around the
space, starting and stopping, cued by the music. Students repeat with other locomotor
movements (e.g., hop, jump, glide) as the teacher plays music for various amounts of
time. As they hear the music, students demonstrate the movement. When the music
stops, the students freeze. The freeze dance game is a structure a teacher could use in
a variety of group settings. Students progress to be able to match their movements to
the changes in the music. For example, in the sections of the music with a strong beat,
students move with strong force (e.g., burst, chop), and move with light force (e.g.,
floating, gliding) to lighter, softer sections of the music. Students learn to observe and
perceive concepts, movements, and patterns in new ways, and to analyze the many
possibilities in stillness and movement. Over time, students come to understand
beginning compositional principles such as sequencing and structuring.
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Table 3.7: Sample Performance Standards for Pre-K–2 Performing 4
PK.DA:Pr4 K.DA:Pr4 1.DA:Pr4 2.DA:Pr4a. Identify and demonstrate directions for moving the body in general space (e.g., forward, backwards, sideways, up, down, and turning) and finding and returning to a place in space.
a. Make still and moving body shapes that show lines (e.g., straight, bent, and curved), change levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a formation and work with others to change its dimension. Find and return to a place in space.
a. Demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, levels, and facings. Move in straight, curved, and zigzagged pathways individually and with others. Find and return to place in space.
a. Demonstrate clear directionality and intent when performing locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, facings, and pathways in space. Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and examine relationships between body parts.
Responding TK–2
Students can identify the basic components of a dance when observing how a dance is
using space (levels, directions, pathways), relationships (solo, duet, group), and
choreographic forms (partner dances, circle dances, or storytelling dances). Students
practice viewing dance performance, the elements that are observed and the qualities
of movement, connecting what they see in the dance performance to what they have
been practicing in their own movement. A teacher may prompt students saying, “try to
move one leg up high in different ways just as the dancer we saw did,” or “try to keep
your knees bent and move your arms in quick circular patterns just as the dancer we
saw did. Do it your own way until the music stops.”
Table 3.8: Sample Performance Standards for Pre-K–2 Responding 7
PK.DA:Re7 K.DA:Re7 1.DA:Re7 2.DA:Re7a. Identify a movement in a dance by repeating it.
a. Find a movement that repeats in a dance.
a. Find a movement that repeats in a dance to make a pattern.
a. Find movements in a dance that develop a pattern.
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Connecting TK–2
Students explore how movement connects to emotions. A teacher may guide students
to express emotions, exploring a variety of means using: facial expressions, how they
stand, what they do with their arms, how they walk, and how they take a pose. Focusing
on a few emotions at a time (e.g., happy, tired, angry, scared) students explore how the
body can communicate and embody emotions (e.g., movements might be done larger
or smaller, more flowing and free or bound, and with a smile or scowl, to represent
happiness or anger).
Table 3.9: Sample Performance Standards for Pre-K–2 Connecting 10
PK.DA:Cn10 K.DA:Cn10 1.DA:Cn10 2.DA:Cn10a. Recognize an emotion expressed in dance movement that is watched or performed.
a. Recognize and name an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance and relate it to a personal experience.
a. Find an experience expressed or portrayed in a dance that relates to a familiar experience. Identify the movements that communicate this experience.
a. Describe, create, and/or perform a dance that expresses personal meaning and explain how certain movements express this personal meaning.
The following vignette provides a glimpse of student learning at the second grade level,
but could be adapted for TK, kindergarten, or first grade with increased scaffolding and
support. In this example, students explore and practice combining shapes and
pathways and engage in a freeze dance structure.
Vignette: Meaning in Movement—Grade Two
CREATING—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and
transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
Essential Question: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?
Process Component: Explore
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Performance Standard: 2.DA.Cr1 a. Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli
(e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and
suggest additional sources for movement ideas.
PERFORMING—Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for
presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.
Essential Question: How do dancers work with space, time and energy to
communicate artistic expression?
Process Component: Express
Performance Standard: 2.DA:Pr4 a. Demonstrate clear directionality and intent when
performing locomotor and non-locomotor movements that change body shapes, facings,
and pathways in space. Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and
examine relationships between body parts.
Students have learned various locomotor movements and pathways and also have prior
learning in making shapes with the body. Students are now learning to use a work of art
(e.g., photograph, painting) to inspire shapes and use locomotive movements as
connectors between three shapes to create the beginning, middle, and end of a dance.
The teacher shows students a detailed painting or photograph or work of art. The
teacher directs students to look at and study the image for one minute quietly to
themselves. The teacher leads students in a discussion, asking students what they see.
The teacher asks open-ended questions such as, “What shapes do you see in this
image?” “What movement do you see, or what movement does the image make you
think of? “Do you think we can make a dance about a work of art?” “Do you think there
are any ideas in this artwork that could help a dance choreographer make up shapes or
movements for a dance?” The teacher guides the discussion to help students see how
the “story” of the image, the objects, colors, lines, and movement in the image can be
inspiration for dance movement.
The teacher reminds students of previously learned concepts: symmetry and
asymmetry. The teacher points out symmetrical and asymmetrical objects in the
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artwork, to clarify the difference. The students look around the room and find other
objects and examples of symmetry and asymmetry. The teacher guides students in
transferring the concepts of symmetry and asymmetry into their bodies, by making
shapes with their bodies that are symmetrical and shapes with their bodies that are
asymmetrical.
The teacher asks students to make an asymmetrical shape with their entire body,
including their eyes/focus, that reminds them of one part of the artwork. The teacher
encourages students to make different shapes from that of their neighbors if they can, to
reinforce the value of creative, divergent thinking. Students struggling to make shapes
look to those around them for ideas. This asymmetrical shape can be called the
beginning or first shape of the dance. The teacher asks students to practice several
times.
The teacher asks students to create an ending or last shape that is a similar to the
beginning asymmetrical shape but facing a different direction, or on a different level
changing the relationship of the dancer to the floor. For example, one student takes a
beginning shape that is an upright standing twisted shape and changes it into an ending
shape that is the same shape but lying down on the floor.
The teacher asks the students to now find a symmetrical shape in the artwork and
translate that shape into a body shape to become the middle shape of the dance.
Students practice it, while the teacher encourages divergent choices, different levels,
and facings.
The teacher has students walk freely through the space and then calls out “first shape”
or “middle shape” or “last shape” to check their memorization of all three. The teacher
reminds students to keep their shapes consistent each time, the beginning shape is the
same shape each time, the middle shape is the same each time, and so forth.
The teacher tells the students that they are now going to include locomotor movement
with their shapes. The teacher asks students to improvise a slow locomotor movement
choosing pathways inspired by the artwork. The teacher asks them to repeat the same
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locomotor movement, but this time find a way to do it quickly. The teacher repeats this
process encouraging the students to try various locomotor movements. The teacher
plays a drum or hand held sound maker at two different speeds and carefully observes
students’ response to the quick or slow tempo. The objective is to keep the locomotor or
travelling movements essentially the same but at different tempos (speed). The teacher
provides feedback to individuals and to the class as students move.
The teacher then guides students in assembling the dance by incorporating all of the
parts. Dancers are asked to make a sequence that incorporates these components: the
three shapes they created—one at the beginning, one in the middle, and one at the end
—that has a facing change or level change and incorporates quick and slow travelling
movements; dancers choose which shapes they want to place at the beginning, middle,
and end; and they choose when they travel quickly or slowly.
The teacher plays music that has different tempos (speeds) guiding students in the
practice of their dance. The teacher continually monitors, checking for memorization of
the three shapes and that they can do a travelling movement with two tempos (speeds).
Once students have memorized their dance sequence, the teacher introduces the
freeze dance structure in which students “freeze” when the music stops. The teacher
first guides students to freeze, stopping the music in the same place each time, during
their middle shape. The teacher repeats this until the students are consistent in their
freeze. Once students are comfortable with the freeze the teacher asks them to now
stop their action whenever the music stops, and the teacher changes this moment each
time—sometimes during the middle shape, and sometimes during the travelling
segments. This increases the complexity as it may challenge the students’ balance but
it also develops coordination and encourages the discovery of random, unplanned
balances.
To reinforce in the concepts of shape, locomotor movement, body parts and direction,
when they are “frozen,” the teacher calls on students randomly asking them to notice if
they stopped in a symmetrical or asymmetrical shape, or to describe what direction of
the room they are facing, or what direction they were travelling when they stopped, or
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what body parts are in contact with the floor, or which body parts are straight, bent or
curved. The teacher asks students to do their final freeze in their final asymmetrical
shape and “hold….” Students freeze holding their shape for a few seconds without
changing their muscles or their focus (where their eyes are looking).
The teacher returns to the art work. The teacher guides students in a reflection, posing
the question, “What details in the artwork did you find or chose that inspired your
dance?” Students respond in writing using the following sentence frames:
In the art work there is ... This inspired my first shape where I ...
In the art work there is ... This inspired my middle shape where I ...
In the art work there is ... This inspired my end shape where I ...
Grade Band 3–5
Emphasis Quote
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille—Dancer, Choreographer
In grades three through five, students become increasingly aware and observant of the
world around them. They are capable of complex patterns of logic, able to analyze and
define people, activities, situations, and events. They enjoy inventing, creating, and
working collaboratively. By grades 3–5 students have developed a sharper sense of
their bodies’ movement capabilities and can apply a range of strategies for exploring
and improvising movement with teacher guidance.
Creating 3–5
Students learn to observe and analyze creative possibilities such as how props, levels,
energy, time, and space can be used in different ways. A teacher may guide students to
listen and discuss elements of a musical selection. Considering the quality of sounds
they hear, the teacher engages students in visualization exercises to explore what
images the sounds evoke in their minds. The students explore how props and
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movement help communicate the picture of the music or feeling in a dance. Students
show more control when working with stillness, and can replicate a great deal of detail
in practiced shapes. They gain sophistication in ways of moving and can track more
details, such as where the back, head, focus, hands and feet are supposed to be in
relationship to each other.
Table 3.10: Sample Performance Standards for 3–5 Creating 2
3.DA:Cr2 4.DA:Cr2 5.DA:Cr2a. Identify and experiment with choreographic devices to create simple movement patterns and dance structures.
a. Manipulate or modify choreographic devices to expand movement possibilities and create a variety of movement patterns and structures. Discuss movement choices.
a. Manipulate or modify a variety of choreographic devices to expand choreographic possibilities and develop a main idea. Explain reasons for movement choices.
Performing 3–5
Students learn to revise choreography based on feedback and new innovative ideas.
Students continue to explore the elements of movement and can apply these different
elements one at a time or in a combination. Students begin to replicate movements with
more accuracy, remember sequences and connect more movements together. Students
deepen understanding in compositional principles such as sequencing and structuring.
Students deepen their understanding of anatomical principles and dance skills that are
foundational to many styles of dance such as coordinated whole body movements and
stylistic details.
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Table 3.11: Sample Performance Standards for 3–5 Performing 5
3.DA:Pr5 4.DA:Pr5 5.DA:Pr5a. Replicate body shapes, movement characteristics, and movement patterns in a dance sequence with awareness of body alignment and core support.
a. Demonstrate technical dance skills (e.g., alignment, coordination, balance, core support) and movement characteristics when replicating and recalling patterns and sequences of locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
a. Recall and execute a series of dance phrases using technical dance skills (e.g., alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement).
Responding 3–5
Students can identify the basic components of a dance when observing how a dance is
using space, relationships, and choreographic forms. Students may observe two
different dance genres and with the guidance of the teacher, discuss the similarities and
differences found within the two different genres. The students learn, practice, and
demonstrate movement vocabulary specific to dance genres. Students discuss the
similarities and differences and apply them in physical movement, exploring different
movements from different genres, individually and as an ensemble.
Table 3.12: Sample Performance Standards for 3–5 Responding 8
3.DA:Re8 4.DA:Re8 5.DA:Re8Select specific context cues from movement. Explain how they relate to the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.
Relate movements, ideas, and context to decipher meaning in a dance using basic dance terminology.
Interpret meaning in a dance based on its movements. Explain how the movements communicate the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.
Connecting 3–5
Students explore the relationship between dance and society, developing an
understanding of how specific genres communicate the ideas and perspectives of the
culture, society, and time period in which it emerged. Students explore genre and style
asking questions and researching key aspects of dance movements and the ideas they
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communicate. Students deepen their exploration of themes and how movements relate
to points of view and experiences.
Table 3.13: Sample Performance Standards for 3–5 Connecting 11
3.DA:Cn11 4.DA:Cn11 5.DA:Cn11Find a relationship between movement in a dance from a culture, society, or community and the culture from which the dance is derived. Explain what the movements communicate about key aspects of the culture, society, or community.
Select and describe movements in a specific genre or style and explain how the movements relate to the culture, society, historical period, or community from which the dance originated.
Describe how the movement characteristics and qualities of a dance in a specific genre or style communicate the ideas and perspectives of the culture, historical period, or community from which the genre or style originated.
The following vignette provides a glimpse of student learning in the fourth grade level,
but could be adapted for third grade with increased scaffolding and support or fifth
grade with increased rigor and complexity. In this example, students explore dance in
the cultural context in which it emerged.
Vignette: Dance in Cultural Context—Fourth Grade
PERFORMING—Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for
presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.
Essential Question: How do dancers work with space, time and energy to
communicate artistic expression?
Process Component: Express
Performance Standard: 4.DA:Pr4 c. Analyze and refine phrases by incorporating a
greater range of energy and dynamic changes to heighten the effect of their intent.
CONNECTING—Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal,
cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
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Enduring Understanding: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives
about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
Essential Question: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and
community experiences expand dance literacy?
Process Component: Relate
Performance Standard: 4.DA:Cn11 a. Select and describe movements in a specific
genre or style and explain how the movements relate to the culture, society, historical
period, or community from which the dance originated.
The teacher selects specific dances for students to explore, aiming for dances that
students may or may not be familiar with through popular culture or through family and
community contexts (e.g., dances from the 1980s: “The Robocop,” “The Cabbage
Patch,” “The Running Man,” or “The Roger Rabbit”). The teacher selects appropriate
music tracks and music videos that could accompany the selected dances (e.g., “Rock
It,” recorded by Herbie Hancock, or “U Can’t Touch This,” performed by MC Hammer).
The teacher initiates a discussion with the students asking them to share and discuss
dances that they know, like to do, and what is currently popular. The teacher guides the
discussion further to explore what they already know about Hip-hop or Street Dance as
a dance genre, in terms of movement quality, origins, and musical style. As students
brainstorm and volunteer information, the teacher charts the student responses.
Linking back to prior learning, the teacher reviews a movement chart that identifies
movement characteristics and vocabulary. Using a graphic organizer, and the guidance
of the teacher, students engage with each movement listed on the chart. The teacher
demonstrates the movement for the students to observe. Students analyze the
demonstrated movement according to the characteristics listed on the movement chart
to identify movement qualities across body, time, space, and relationship. The teacher
guides discussion of this analysis asking, “When you observe the running man, what do
you notice about the movement quality?”
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Students learn and practice the movement, repeat it with feedback to improve accuracy.
Students record notes about how many attempts they make until they are able to
master the movement.
The teacher also guides students through a research process in which the class
explores the 1980s and the context of the dance (e.g. “The Robocop”) to gain greater
understanding about the cultural and historical context of the physical movement.
Students discuss and share the research they find. This research culminates in a class
discussion responding to the prompt, “What does this movement tell us about the time
period from which it came?”
The following vignette provides an example of student learning at the fifth grade level,
but could be adapted for third or fourth grade with scaffolding and support. In this
example, students explore establishing criteria for dance and analyze the dance
performances based on the established criteria.
Vignette: Evaluating Dance Performance—Fifth Grade
RESPONDING—Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and
cultures
Essential Question: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
Process Component: Critique
Performance Standard: 5.DA:Re9 Demonstrate and discuss the characteristics of
dance that make a dance artistic and meaningful. Relate them to the elements of dance
in genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use basic dance terminology to
describe characteristics of the dance.
The teacher initiates a discussion of how dance in everyday life reflects the culture and
time period in which it originated. The teacher asks students to think of times and places
where they experience dance (e.g. weddings, birthdays, ceremonies). The teacher
leads the students in a brainstorm of common purposes for various dances (e.g.
celebrations, spiritual rituals or events, events in daily life, historical events of the
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community). The teacher supports the students’ brainstorm by adding additional ideas
they do not consider.
The teacher informs students that they are going to be looking at a variety of cultural
dances. As they study these dances, they will make observations noting characteristics
they perceive in the dances. Then they will explore what the characteristics of these
dances reveal about the cultures in which these dances emerge. The teacher continues,
“From what you have learned, let’s set up the criteria you will use as you observe the
dances. What do we look for in the performance of a dance? What details or
characteristics can we perceive?” As the students respond, the teacher ensures
students include dance concepts they have previously learned and use appropriate
dance vocabulary. The teacher guides the students to create a list of characteristics or
criteria to observe. As the class discusses and determines each criterion, they list each
on a graphic organizer. The criteria of dance movement concepts (with appropriate
learned vocabulary) may include:
Formation: What formation do the dancers make (side-by-side, facing each
other, in a circle, in a line, etc.)?
Physical Proximity: How close or far apart are the dancers? Do the dancers
touch? If so, how?
Gestures: What gestures do the dancers make? Are they timed or repeated in
specific ways? Do they appear to be suggestive or symbolic?
Locomotor movement: What locomotor movements do the dancers make? Is
there a pattern? If so, what is it? Is it timed? If so, how? Is it repeated? If so,
how?
Pathways: What pathways do the dancers make? How would you describe the
pathways?
Tempo: What tempo does the dance take (e.g., fast, slow, changing)?
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Facial Expressions: What facial expressions do you observe on the faces of the
dancers (e.g., smiling, somber)?
The teacher plays a video of a dances from the 19th and 20th centuries: the Polka
(Bohemia/Czech Republic), the Waltz (Germany), the Hora (Israel), and the Pata Pata
(South Africa). While watching the dances, students record their observations on their
graphic organizer. The teacher allows time for students to confer with a peer to
compare observations. Students add to their observations based on this comparison.
The teacher also shows the videos multiple times, as needed, for students to “closely
read” the dance.
The teacher leads the students in a whole class discussion, sharing their observations
and, as a class, they synthesize their observations. The teacher asks students to
consider what these observations say about the culture in which the dances occur. For
example, the students notice that in the waltz, the dancers were hardly touching and
were facing each other with a full body width distance between the dancers. The
teacher asks students to infer what this distance between the dancers may suggest
about the culture. Students consider their observations and in pairs discuss inferences.
The students record their inferences on their graphic organizer.
The teacher provides students with grade-appropriate research articles that discuss the
purpose and intention of the dances to provide students information about the cultural
contexts. The class jigsaws the reading of these articles in which small groups are
assigned a specific dance, read the article pertaining to their assigned dance, and
share notes within the small reading group on what they have discovered about the
cultural context of the dance.
When all groups have synthesized their reading notes, they share with the whole class
the cultural context of the dance. The teacher leads the students in a comparison of
their initial inference––what the details they observed indicate about the culture––to the
evidence they found in the research. The teacher guides students to draw conclusions
and understanding of the dance, its characteristics, and how these characteristics
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convey the cultural purpose of the dance. Students conclude by writing in their journals
what they have discovered and observed about these cultural dances.
Grade Band 6–8
Emphasis Quote
You can start late. Look different. Be uncertain. And still succeed.
Misty Copeland—Dancer
In grades six through eight, students are examining social behaviors and their
relationship to the world on a deeper level, and developing a self-identity with which
they feel comfortable. The evolving emotions and rapid physical changes of the age
group present both challenges and opportunities for skill development and expression in
dance. Students in grades six through eight develop, select, and can apply a range of
strategies for exploring and improvising.
Creating 6–8
Students observe and analyze creative possibilities and see the connection between the
need to develop flexibility, balance, strength, and coordination in order to accomplish
the movement imagined. Students have fuller bodily control in motion and stillness and
are aware of more anatomical details and alignment principles.
Table 3.14: Sample Performance Standards for 6–8 Creating 3
6.DA:Cr3 7.DA:Cr3 8.DA:Cr3a. Revise dance compositions using collaboratively developed artistic criteria. Document the revisions. Explain reasons for revisions and how choices made relate to artistic criteria.
a. Evaluate possible revisions of dance compositions and, if necessary, consider revisions of artistic criteria based on self-reflection and feedback of others. Explain reasons for choices and how they clarify artistic intent.
a. Revise choreography collaboratively or independently based on artistic criteria, self-reflection, and the feedback of others. Articulate the reasons for choices and revisions and explain how they clarify and enhance the artistic intent.
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Students learn to revise choreography based on feedback. The elements of movement
have become incorporated in everything they do and they are swift to respond to an
element that is called out by the teacher. Movement sequences and formations of
dancers can become more complex. They can quickly solve creative problems in dance
and also enjoy a blend of technique, improvisation, and choreography. Students learn to
develop and refine artistic techniques and works. Acquisition of skills and technique
takes time, repetition, feedback, and willingness to improve. The teacher may engage
the class in a discussion of why practice and refinement in dance is essential, saying,
“Developing a work takes multiple drafts, and the ability to accept constructive feedback
along with the willingness to let go various aspects of previous drafts. Refining,
therefore, has much to do with admitting that you are not there yet.” Students practice
and exhibit dance techniques, such as functional alignment, coordination, balance, core
support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement, weight shifts, and flexibility/range
of motion. The teacher facilitates the learning of new skills or sharing of new
performance preparation methods, injury prevention, performance techniques such as
projection and use of a stage space, so that students can achieve a greater level of
professionalism in their own works.
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Table 3.15: Sample Performance Standards for 6–8 Performing 6
6.DA:Pr6 7.DA:Pr6 8.DA:Pr6a. Recognize needs and adapt movements to performance area. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and make corrections as needed and apply to future performances.
a. Recommend changes to and adapt movements to performance area. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Maintain journal documenting these efforts. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.
a. Demonstrate leadership qualities (e.g. commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. After the performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document efforts and create a plan for ongoing improvements.
Responding 6–8
Students can analyze how the use of space, relationships, and choreographic forms
creates a desired effect and can revise works for new outcomes. They develop
awareness of new sensations, connections, and feel that they have better focus to
achieve their technical goals with more clarity. They are able to describe movement in
terms of weight shifts or frame choreography or technical sequences in terms of their
growing flexibility or range of motion. Students respond to artistic work by analyzing its
components through comparing and contrasting, noticing patterns. They can also
recognize how the elements of dance are used throughout different genres, styles, or
cultural movement practices. Students may analyze a single dance work, comparing its
varied components, or may look at multiple works to find similarities/differences across
different works of art. Students observe the visual components of dance performances,
ranging from the surrounding setting, architecture, sets/lights/costumes/props to the
dancers and movement itself, hearing any aural components, and, if live, noticing other
factors of the environment that contribute to the effect of the piece.
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Table 3.16: Sample Performance Standards for 6–8 Responding 9
6.DA:Re9 7.DA:Re9 8.DA:Re9Discuss the characteristics and artistic intent of a dance from a genre, style, or cultural movement practice and develop artistic criteria to critique the dance using genre-specific dance terminology.
Compare artistic intent, content and context from dances to examine the characteristics of genre, style, or cultural movement practice. Based on the comparison, refine artistic criteria using genre-specific dance terminology.
Use artistic criteria to determine what makes an effective performance. Consider content, context, genre, style, or cultural movement practice to comprehend artistic expression. Use genre-specific dance terminology.
Connecting 6–8
Students recognize how dance is strengthening, expressive, and dynamic; their sense
of self is affirmed by dance and they are eager to show their skills to others. Students
examine how each person has individual preferences. The teacher may show a video of
a cultural dance and have students observe and describe the movement characteristics
or qualities seen and heard throughout the video. Students discuss the similarities and
differences between the cultural dance movements and their own movement
preferences. Teachers may provide students opportunities to research examples of
choreography (through online videos or from classmates) in a genre they prefer, in
order to demonstrate the similarities and differences of their movement preferences to
the various cultural dances.
Table 3.17: Sample Performance Standards for 6–8 Connecting 10
6.DA:Cn10 7.DA:Cn10 8.DA:Cn10a. Observe the movement characteristics or qualities observed in a specific dance genre. Describe differences and similarities about what was observed to one’s attitudes and movement preferences.
a. Compare and contrast the movement characteristics or qualities found in a variety of dance genres. Discuss how the movement characteristics or qualities differ from one’s own movement characteristics or qualities and how different perspectives are communicated.
a. Relate connections found between different dances and discuss the relevance of the connections to the development of one’s personal perspectives.
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The following snapshot provides a glimpse of student learning at the sixth grade level,
but could be adapted for seventh or eighth grade with increased rigor and complexity. In
this example, students choreograph a dance phrase that incorporates the
choreographic devices of unity, contrast, and variety.
Snapshot: Choreographic Devices and Artistic Intention—Grade Six
CREATING—Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: The elements of dance, dance structures, and
choreographic devices serve as both a foundation and a departure point for
choreographers.
Essential Question: What influences choice-making in creating choreograph?
Performance Standard: 6.DA:Cr2 a. Explore choreographic devices and dance
structures to develop a dance study that supports an artistic intent. Explain the goal or
purpose of the dance.
The teacher leads the students in a review of previously introduced concepts of unity,
contrast, and variety. The teacher asks the students to define each choreographic
device.
In groups of four or five students, the teacher distributes two paper bag or envelopes to
each group with six to seven pieces of paper with the one of the following choreographic
devices: unity, contrast, and variety, written on them in one bag or envelope. In the
other bag or envelope, eight pieces of paper should include the following Laban effort
qualities: wring, press, flick, dab, glide, float, punch, and slash, written on each piece.
Each group selects one paper out of the unity, variety and contrast bag/envelope and
two papers from the effort actions bag/envelope. The teacher then directs the groups of
students to choreograph a 32-count phrase illustrating that choreographic device using
the two Laban effort actions as their artistic intention.
The teacher distributes a Choreographic Devices Checklist and reviews it with all of the
students. Then the teacher allows 20 minutes for the groups of students to work. The
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teacher walks around to help those groups of students as they work to coach and assist
students as needed.
The teacher selects and plays music for the group of students to practice dance. The
groups of students rehearse their phrases with the music a few times. The teacher asks
students to review and apply the checklist to their work.
Each group of students performs for the class, and the audience watches to determine
which choreographic device (unity, contrast, or variety) was used and how the effort
action was used as an artistic intention. As needed, the teacher provides feedback to
the students for areas of improvement.
Choreographic Devices Checklist: Demonstrates a variety of level, space and direction changes
Artistic intention is clearly present in all aspects of choreography
Clear beginning, middle, and end
Choreography is performed with focus
Choreography is 32 counts in length
The following snapshot provides a glimpse of student learning at the seventh-grade
level. In this discussion, students explore body-use strategies, practices that support
dance activities, and collaborate with peers to refine dances for performance.
Snapshot: Refining Technique—Grade Seven
PERFORMING—Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work
for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Dancers use the mind-body connection and develop the
body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.
Essential Question: What must a dancer do to prepare the mind and body for artistic
expression?
Process Component: Embody
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Performance Standard: 7.DA:Pr5: a. Apply body-use strategies to accommodate
physical maturational development to technical dance skills (e.g., functional alignment,
coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement, weight
shifts, and flexibility/range of motion).
Performance Standard: 7.DA:Pr5: b. Utilize healthful practices and sound nutrition in
dance activities and everyday life. Discuss benefits of practices and how choices
enhance performance.
A seventh grade dance student determines that they want to improve the height of their
jumps. The teacher guides the student through individual assessment, noting the
practices that are effective and those that are inefficient, suggesting new placement and
muscle engagement. The student attempts to apply ideas the teacher shared about
alignment, potential energy, and dynamics to the act of jumping. The teacher and the
student observe that the jumps are improving. The student also notices how their
increased power in jumps helps them achieve powerful jumps not only in dance class
but also in any physical activity calling for elevation.
To further the improvement of the jumps, the student researches healthful practices and
sound nutrition for dancers. The student creates a journal of the practices they already
engage in and also list practices would like to adopt, and records daily habits and
progress. The teacher supports this application of healthy practices checking the journal
entries periodically to provide the student feedback and alternatives in choice-making
regarding sleep, food, and hydration habits.
The following vignette provides a glimpse of student learning at the eighth grade level.
In this example, students explore patterns of movement and artistic intent and examine
how the elements of dance can be used to support this intent.
Vignette: Looking for Artistic Intent—Grade Eight
RESPONDING—Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
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Enduring Understanding: Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its
meaning.
Essential Question: How is a dance understood?
Process Component: Analyze
Performance Standard: 8.DA:Re7: a. Describe, demonstrate and discuss patterns of
movement and their relationships in dance in context of artistic intent.
Performance Standard: 8.DA:Re7: b. Explain how the elements of dance are used in
a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices to communicate intent. Use
genre-specific dance terminology.
The teacher invites a choreographer from a local dance company to share with students
a new work they just finished making. The choreographer shares that their intention with
this latest dance was to work with a diverse group of differently-abled movers to create
a dance about the problem of isolation and loneliness being experienced in today’s
world. The choreographer explains the style, the reasons behind the work, what
motivated it, and what they would like it to express.
Following this visit by the choreographer, the teacher asks students to make a list of
three ideas or emotions or effects that they understand to be the intentions of the
choreographer. One student writes: “The choreographer seems to want to have a very
sad beginning, show connection in the middle between people, and end with a very
happy feeling of not being alone.” A second student writes: “The choreographer seems
to want people to be impressed with all of the different kinds of movements that are
possible with differently-abled performers, and it seems he wants us to relate to the
feeling of being lonely at the beginning, then become more at peace with solitude at the
end.” A third student writes: “The choreographer seems to want to make a dance that
shows off what you can do in a wheelchair and then have everyone not be angry.” The
teacher recognizes that this last response demonstrates an interpretation of the
choreographer’s intent that may have some inaccuracies, but still has value as a first
response.
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The teacher provides feedback to the students, asking some of them to refine their short
statements of understanding the choreographer’s intent. The third student receives
more support and is given an opportunity to review a video recording from the in-person
visit. The third student revises the initial description to more accurately describe the
choreographer’s goals and the actual explanation of the dance.
The teacher takes the class to the performance of the work. Prior to the start of the
performance, the teacher instructs the students in what observations they should record
as they watch the performance. During the performance students are to list all of the
dance elements they recognize. The students are to record any observed
choreographic devices: recurring patterns, formations, dynamics, key motifs, etc. The
students record these observations using appropriate dance vocabulary.
After the performance, the teacher facilitates a discussion of the observation notes the
students recorded during the performance. One student recalls the movements that
stayed the same throughout the dance, and contrasts this with movements that were
different in the various sections of the dance. Another observed recurring bigger
patterns of movement in space and noticed repetition in the use of stage space. “For
example, the dancers always started from one corner of the stage and moved in a
circular pathway until they exited.” Another student noticed that when people were
partnered with one another, there was always the same order of movements—a push, a
pull and then some lifts followed by circling around each other to say goodbye. Another
student saw formations in the work and noticed when people were in lines or in a
square, or in rather random groupings, close together or scattered through space.
The dance teacher then models the analysis process. The teacher recalls that the
choreographer said he wanted to show how lonely a person can feel if they think they
are different from others. The teacher shares with the students the observations the
teacher recorded during the dance performance. The teacher models how they connect
their observations of the performance to what the choreographer shared in the visit.
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Students work in pairs to analyze and justify their analysis with an explanation that ties
together the movement elements or patterns observed with their understanding of the
choreographer’s intentions.
High School Proficient
Emphasis Quote
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov—Dancer, Choreographer
Creating High School Proficient
Students in high school in the proficient level develop, select, and can apply a range of
strategies for exploring and improvising, as an individual and as an ensemble, in ways
that challenge their technical ability and expressive qualities. Students adapt to and
apply new movements from multiple styles. Students experiment with the elements of
dance to explore personal movement preferences and strengths and select movements
that challenge skills and build on strengths in an original dance study or dance. For
example, a teacher may guide students in creating a dance study using the A-B-A form,
where A includes the student’s favorite or most comfortable shapes and movement
sequence, and B includes less familiar or contrasting shapes and movement sequence.
Performing High School Proficient
Students develop the flexibility, balance, strength, and coordination needed in order to
accomplish the movement imagined. They can identify areas of challenge and ask
questions that aid in their progress, understanding the process of revision strengthens
their dances. Students may also gravitate toward a specialization in a personally
compelling style. They make their dances dynamic by drawing upon different dance
elements for different purposes. For example, students may explore the percussive
beats found within the music, any string or wind accents, as well as vocals (if using a
song with lyrics). Students may improvise movements to match the accents found within
the different instruments or vocals used. Students may have the opportunity to explore
the one piece of music changing the syncopation and accent movements to two
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different aspects of the accompaniment. Students increase the capacity for speed,
control, balance, flexibility, and strength required to accomplish increasingly
sophisticated movements. Students can also collaboratively or individually solve
creative problems in dance creating formations in dance sequences that show
inventiveness and a great awareness of strategic use of stage space.
Responding High School Proficient
Students select and compare dances, examining the intent and artistic expression.
Students recognize how the relationships among the elements of dance, use of body,
dance technique, dance structure, and context enhance the meaning and support the
artistic expression of dance, exploring these insights using evaluative criteria. They
analyze compelling creative possibilities and use dance terminology with their peers and
refer to anatomy and alignment principles.
Connecting High School Proficient
Proficient students connect dance with progressively sophisticated ideas from the world
and consider various cultural, social, and new dance forms as well as concert dance
forms. They are able to explain how the perspectives expressed by a choreographer
may impact their own interpretation, using evidence to support their analysis. Students
collaboratively identify dance related questions or problems and through research,
students analyze and apply information gathered to create a group dance, and discuss
how the dance communicates new perspectives or realizations.
The following snapshot provides a glimpse of student learning at the proficient level. In
this example, students explore a variety of stimuli as a source for creating movement.
Snapshot: A Variety of Stimuli—High School Proficient
CREATING—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and
transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
Essential Question: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?
Process Component: Explore
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Performance Standard: Prof.DA.Cr.1: Explore a variety of stimuli for sourcing
movement to develop an improvisational or choreographed dance study and analyze
the process and the relationship between the stimuli and the movement.
Students begin by using sounds they hear in and around the dance studio as inspiration
for new movement ideas. The teacher asks students to choose three and list their
qualities, then try to describe their overall texture in words. Students create three
movement phrases that capture three different textures of sound. For example, one
student recognizes the sound of air passing through a doorframe, a car going by, and
someone talking.
Students demonstrate how they found a way to physicalize the quality or texture of that
sound. The teacher prompts students in a discussion of whether the phrase had any
expressive potential for those viewing it that seemed to go beyond the quality of the
sound, encouraging students to support their thinking with textual evidence from the
demonstration. Through the discussion, students explore whether a story or feeling or
idea emerged from just moving and capturing, in movement, the qualities of three
random sounds.
High School Accomplished
Creating High School Accomplished
Students at the accomplished level in high school can select from a variety of strategies
that allow for exploring and improvising, and work effectively as an individual mover or
in an ensemble, in ways that challenge their technical abilities and expressive qualities.
They utilize dance elements as needed for their expression. They are willing to
synthesize styles that create compelling hybrids and understand the work needed to
develop further flexibility, balance, strength, and coordination. They create interesting
formations and start to develop more options regarding the use of the stage or
performing space.
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Performing High School Accomplished
Students begin to develop a clear understanding of the different adaptations needed to
achieve different styles. Students learn to ask questions that aid in their progress, and
learn that critique leads to revision and strengthens their dances. They respond to
coaching on specifics of speed, control, balance, flexibility, and strength needed to
accomplish increasingly sophisticated movements.
Responding High School Accomplished
Students analyze dance works, examining examples of recurring patterns of movement
and their relationships that create structure and meaning in dance. They explore and
analyze how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural
movement practices to communicate intent within a cultural context. They use dance
terminology with their peers, refer to anatomy and alignment principles, and
collaboratively or individually solve creative problems in dance with guidance.
Connecting High School Accomplished
High School students connect dance with more complex ideas from the world
connecting their own experiences to that of various cultural, social, and new dance
forms as well as concert dance forms and begin to narrow down the styles they want to
pursue in order to put more time into becoming advanced in one or two.
The following vignette provides an example of student learning at the accomplished
level as well as the CCSS Literacy Standards for Grades eleven through twelve. In this
example, students engage in researching dances of a specific historical and cultural
period and reflect upon the impact in contemporary choreography.
Vignette: Dance in the Context of Time Period—High School Accomplished
CONNECTING—Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal
experiences to make art.
Enduring Understanding: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences,
knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
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Essential Question: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other
knowledge, and events around us?
Process Component: Synthesize
Performance Standard: Acc.DA.Cn.10 a. Analyze a dance that is related to content
learned in other subjects and research its context. Synthesize information learned and
share new ideas about its impact on one’s perspective.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and
convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the
effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8 Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative
print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and
limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate
information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism
and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.
The teacher initiates an analysis of Marathon dancing and the Charleston by engaging
students in a KWL chart of the historical significances of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Students write down what they want to know about dancing found during this time
period, what they wonder about, and later will revisit this chart to write down what they
learned throughout this study. The teacher encourages students to consider and recall
learning from other courses, such as Social Science and History classes and English
and/or Theatre courses that have engaged the students in studying the historical time
period of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Students share their ideas on the KWL chart with
partners, adding ideas that surface in these conversations. The teacher engages the
whole class discussion considering what they want to know about Marathon dancing
and the Charleston as well as any wonderings they have. The teacher charts the
responses from the K and W columns for the whole class. The L column will be saved
for the conclusion of their research to allow time for students to synthesize the
information to then share new ideas about its impact.
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The teacher introduces and demonstrates choreography around the Charleston and the
concept of Marathon dancing. The teacher elects to teach them the dances first prior to
their research and then reteach the dances once knowledge is acquired so that
students can feel the movement qualities and listen to the music of the time period
before they read the historical significance.
The teacher then guides students through the research process in which students read
articles and other research sources (e.g., dance databases, video clips, interviews, etc.)
centered on history of the 1920s and 1930s. As students investigate dance works found
within the time period, students are encouraged to pay careful attention to symbolism
behind movements and the ways in which history reflects itself throughout movement.
Students look for and track the trends they see within the 1920s and 1930s that may
have led to the creation of the Charleston and Marathon dancing.
At the end of each research segment, the teacher provides students with an “exit ticket”
to reflect on and share what they are discovering in their research. The exit tickets
include prompts from the following:
What cultural trends or characteristics of the 1920s and 1930s do you see
reflected in today’s cultural trends or characteristics?
What cultural trends or characteristics of the 1920s and 1930s are significantly
different from the cultural trends and characteristics you see today?
How is the research informing your perspective of the movement and history of
the 1920s and 1930s?
What are some ways dance conveyed meaning in the 1920s and 1930s that may
be similar or different than today?
What moves found within the Charleston or marathon dancing do you see in
today’s choreography?
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The teacher provides students an opportunity to present their findings encouraging
students to choose how they would like to prepare the presentation and the specific
content of their presentation in order to build students’ intrinsic motivation for learning.
Therefore, students may choose to work independently, in pairs, or in groups of three to
four. They may also select which dance style to research: Marathon dancing or the
Charleston.
The teacher guides the students through synthesizing the information learned and share
new ideas about its impact on one’s perspective, creating meaning from the research.
The teacher provides multiple options for how students may present the research and
their conclusions from the research. Students elect to present their knowledge in
formats such as: a PowerPoint, a Prezi, a scene or role play that is acted out, a speech,
an interview, an essay, spoken word, or a blend of a dance performance and any of the
above.
Following the presentations, the students engage in a final reflection, completing the L
column of the KWL chart to reflect on and summarize what they have learned about
these dances of a specific historical period.
High School Advanced
Creating High School Advanced
Students at the advance level in high school have developed and can apply a wide
range of strategies for exploring and improvising, as an individual and as an ensemble,
in ways that challenge their technical ability and expressive qualities. They make their
dances dynamic by drawing upon different dance elements for different purposes.
Formations show inventiveness and a great awareness of strategic use of stage space.
Performing High School Advanced
Students adapt to and apply new movements from multiple styles. They analyze
compelling creative possibilities and work to develop the flexibility, balance, strength,
and coordination needed in order to accomplish the movement imagined. Students can
identify areas of challenge and ask questions that aid in their progress, understanding
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flexibility, and strength required to accomplish increasingly sophisticated movements
accelerates.
Responding High School Advanced
Students define their personal artistic preferences to critique dance, considering societal
and personal values, and a range of artistic expression. They can analyze and interpret
how the elements of dance, dance structure, execution of dance movement principles,
and context contribute to artistic expression across different genres, styles, or cultural
movement practices, using dance terminology with their peers. They refer to anatomy
and alignment principles, and collaboratively or individually solve creative problems in
dance.
Connecting High School Advanced
Students immerse themselves in various cultural, social, and new dance forms as well
as concert dance forms, but may also gravitate toward a specialization in a personally
compelling style. They connect dance with progressively sophisticated ideas from the
world. Students reflect on and review original choreography developed over time with
respect to its content and context and its relationship to personal perspectives,
analyzing the variables that contributed to changes in their personal growth. They also
investigate various dance related careers through a variety of research methods and
techniques.
The following vignette provides an example of student learning at the advanced level. In
this example, students collaboratively create a dance work with a specific artistic intent.
Vignette: Clarifying Artistic Intent—High School Advanced
CREATING—Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document
their work to communicate meaning
Essential Question: How do choreographers use self-reflection, feedback from others,
and documentation to improve the quality of their work?
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Process Component: Revise
Performance Standards: Adv.DA.Cr.3: a. Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by
manipulating and refining choreographic devices, dance structures, and artistic criteria
using self-reflection and feedback from others. Document choices made in the revision
process and justify how the refinements support artistic intent.
RESPONDING—Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and
cultures
Essential Question: What criteria are used to evaluate dance?
Process Component: Critique
Performance Standards: Adv.DA:Re9 Define personal artistic preferences to critique
dance. Consider societal and personal values, and a range of artistic expression.
Discuss perspectives with peers and justify views.
CONNECTING—Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal
experiences to make art.
Enduring Understanding: As dance is experienced, all personal experiences,
knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret meaning.
Essential Question: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other
knowledge, and events around us?
Process Component: Synthesize
Performance Standards: Adv.DA:Cn10 a. Review original choreography developed
over time with respect to its content and context and its relationship to personal
perspectives. Reflect on and analyze the variables that contributed to changes in one’s
personal growth.
The teacher begins by guiding students through researching the concepts of “mosaic”
and “community.” The teacher puts students into small choreography groups and asks
students to discuss how these two ideas can be combined to create an original piece of
choreography. The students collaboratively write an artistic statement that will help
guide the development of the piece.
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The teacher guides students through improvisation exercises to explore movement that
expresses the student’s personal voice and communicates the artistic intent identified
by the group. The teacher encourages students to take risks while improvising to extend
beyond their personal movement preferences and seek out unexpected solutions.
Students record the outcomes of this exploration and effort in a journal entry and justify
their choreographic choices by explaining how they addressed the artistic intent as
defined by the artistic statement drafted by the choreography group.
The teacher asks students to collaboratively compose a group dance incorporating the
movements/phrases generated by the individuals of the group during the improvisation
exercises. As a group, the students explore a variety of choreographic devices and
dance structures that support the artist intent as noted in the artistic statement. The
group documents the draft piece in a video recording.
The teacher pairs groups for feedback. Each group shares the artistic statement with
their partner group and shows their video recorded draft pieces. The groups provide
observations from the video recording and discuss ways in which the artistic intent was
clear or unclear. The paired groups discuss possible revisions.
The students then collaborate to further in their choreography groups to revise and
refine their choreography by manipulating and refining choreographic devices, dance
structures, and artistic criteria using self-reflection and the feedback they received from
their partner group. The students document the revised piece in a rehearsal video.
The teacher shows the class two recorded pieces of choreography of different styles
and genre by professional choreographers. The teacher facilitates a whole-class
discussion and analysis focusing on how recurring patterns of movement and their
relationships create well-structured and meaningful choreography.
The teacher has the students go back to their choreography groups, where the students
view their rehearsal video. The teacher asks students to discuss what they observe, and
analyze how the dance reflects their artistic statement/intent, reminding them to use
genre-based terminology in discussions and writing. The students synthesize their
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discussion and analysis in writing to reflect on the new understandings about their
choreography that have been revealed through the analysis of the professional pieces.
Students then share their reflections with their peers and justify their perspectives.
Assessment of Student Learning in Dance
Emphasis Quote
If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no
reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of
that art.
José Limón—Dancer, Choreographer
Assessment is a process of collecting and analyzing data in order to measure student
growth and learning before, during, and after instruction. The assessment of student
learning involves describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and interpreting information
about what students know and are able to do. A complete assessment of student
learning should include multiple measures through a variety of formats developmentally
appropriate for the student.
Assessment must be both formative and summative to be effective. Assessment is most
effective when
it is provided on a regular, ongoing basis;
is seen as an opportunity to promote learning rather than as a final judgment;
shows learners their strengths; and
provides information to redirect efforts, make plans, and establish future learning
goals
(Marzano 2006).
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Authentic assessment is an effective method for assessing understanding, skills and the
ability to engage in the artistic processes. This type of assessment happens in real time,
as the student demonstrates the knowledge, skill, and is engaged in the process, such
as, a student improvising a dance sequence, performing in a specific dance genre or
style, interpreting the artistic intent of a dance performance, or comparing the
similarities of two different cultural dances. Authentic assessment provides students the
opportunity to demonstrate their understanding through the genuine application of the
knowledge and skills necessary to engage in each of the artistic processes: Creating,
Performing, Responding, and Connecting.
Assessment tools can take many forms such as, selected response, open response,
portfolios, open-ended, performance, performance criteria, criterion-referenced,
performance/authentic assessment, analytical and holistic scoring rubrics (see Chapter
2 for further guidance on assessment and scoring tools). Assessments can be project
based or designed as performance tasks to showcase student originality and creativity.
Embedding student writing opportunities into an instructional plan is a way to access
student voice and learning in a way that can be meaningful for both teachers and for
students. Writing samples are a means to capture the metacognitive experience of the
dance student in their learning process. For example, students’ response to a prompt
that asks them for a summary of their learning, including an assessment of their ability,
and their internal emotional experience of their learning, provides insight into their
learning process that is not observable. When students think about their own learning
and capture it in writing, students and teachers deepen their understanding of the
learning taking place. Revisiting written responses overtime can also be valuable in
teaching students the value of grit, the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward
very long-term goals, as it relates to learning (Duckworth, et al. 2007).
Summative Assessments
Summative assessments in dance are used to measure student learning, and skill
acquisition at the conclusion of an instructional period which may be the end of an
instructional unit, a lesson series, a production, or a season. Summative assessments
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provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate that they have achieved the dance
learning objective(s) within a given instructional period. In dance, summative
assessments can be powerful motivators for student achievement. Performance-based
summative assessments allow for authentic demonstrations of dance learning.
Performance and performance assessment should build to allow students to become
comfortable with performing in front of others gradually over time.
Written summative assessments provide rich opportunity for ensuring that students
have acquired dance academic language and knowledge and can apply it in meaningful
ways. With the emphasis on problem solving in many of California’s standards, high
school students, at all proficiency levels, can apply their knowledge of dance to
creatively solve a real-world problem. Using a prompt such as, “Develop a plan to stage
a one-hour performance at a local venue including a theme, choreographic intentions
for the work to be presented, as well as budget, rehearsal schedule, and costuming
plan” will inform student creative problem-solving abilities.
Assessment scoring tools such as rubrics can be helpful for monitoring development of
skills such as leaps, turns, and jumps. Checklists are a quick way to keep track of which
movements or standards students has mastered. A rubric can also be used to measure
growth over time with an emphasis on mastery. The results of an assessment scored by
a rubric can identify additional support a student needs for mastery of skill development.
For elementary students in the primary grades, a simple rubric with pictures can help
students receive feedback on their dancing, regardless of their reading abilities.
Students’ written work about dance may include pictures instead of or in addition to
writing.
It is important that success criteria be shared and clearly articulated for students
throughout instruction and practice so that students have a clear understanding of the
learning that will be assessed and expectations for achievement. Rubrics and scoring
tools for performance-based assessments can communicate success criteria to
students and also to parents. Rubrics and other scoring tools can also be employed to
provide opportunity for students to practice metacognition and reflection. Teachers can
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guide students on how to self-assess their learning based on the rubric and then review
the student self-assessment to open a dialogue about similarities and differences
between the teacher’s evaluation and the student’s evaluation.
The following snapshot is a sample rubric for Performing Standard 4 at the fifth-grade
level.
Snapshot: Sample Grade Five Rubric for Performing Standard 4
PERFORMING—Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for
presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.
Essential Question: How do dancers work with space, time and energy to
communicate artistic expression?
Process Component: Express
Performance Standard: 5.DA:Pr4 b. Recognize and respond to tempo changes as
they occur in dance and music.
Tempo In Progress:You are learning
how to move to the tempo
Approaching:You can move to
the tempo some of the time
Met:You can move to
the tempo consistently
Fast In Progress Approaching Met
Slow In Progress Approaching Met
Medium In Progress Approaching Met
The following snapshot is a sample summative assessment for Creating Standard 1 at
the high school proficient level.
Snapshot: Sample Proficient Summative Assessment
CREATING—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
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Enduring Understanding: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and
transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
Essential Question: Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?
Process Component: Explore
Performing Standard: Prof.DA.Cr1 Experiment with the elements of dance to explore
personal movement preferences and strengths and select movements that challenge
skills and build on strengths in an original dance study or dance.
Summative Assessment: In small groups, create a movement study using the elements
of dance to demonstrate/depict an environment or situation. The movement study must
have a clear beginning, middle, and end;
use a variety of movements (shapes, levels, patterns/pathways, locomotor
movement, and gestures);
incorporate a variation in time/tempo (demonstrating knowledge of base tempo,
double-time, and half-time;
use dynamic range of motion, force, weight to help develop/articulate the given
environment or situation; and
use choreographic principles: change of direction, change of facing, formations,
entrances/exits, cannon, retrograde, deconstruction, A-B-A, etc.
The following is a sample rubric at the high school advanced level.
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Table 3.18: Sample Rubric for High School Advanced
Criteria Accomplished 4
Approaching 3 Developing 2 Emerging 1
Use of theme:“This is
Me”
“This is Me” personal quality is clearly creative through movement. Strong support and justification is given verbally (video) and in writing (dance outline). Creativity is clear showing inventiveness of movement and idea/theme.
“This is Me” personal quality is developed with clarity through creative and inventive movement. Justification is clearly given verbally, outline was attempted, the theme or idea well expressed.
“This is Me” personal quality is partially developed movement but may not be clear. Justification is given verbally, outline was attempted. Creativity and inventiveness is attempted.
“This is Me” personal quality is expressed only in literal body movement. Creativity and inventiveness is lacking. Justification of idea/theme is basically expressed.
Length of Piece
Study is more than 60 seconds in length.
Study is 60 seconds in length.
Study is 46–59 seconds in length.
Study is 30 seconds in length.
Use of Dance
Elements
Use of dance concepts: time, space, and energy are fully expanded; all 3 elements are clearly expressed. The study utilizes a minimum of three items within each element.
Use of time, space, and energy concepts are not fully expanded, but all 3 elements are expressed in some nature within the study utilizing a minimum of two items within each element.
Use of time, space, and energy concepts are not fully expanded, but 2 elements are expressed in some nature within the study utilizing a minimum of two items within each element.
Dance study has a basic use of the elements. One item used in each area, one element is observed as being clearly defined over the others.
Emotional Variation
Strong mood or feeling invoked via body and facial
Body expression may lack some clarity, but the
Body expression shows intent however,
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Approaching 3 Developing 2 Emerging 1
expression, audience clearly understands and interprets mood and can describe the expressive elements used by the dancer.
intent is still conveyed to the audience, usually via strong facial expression. Audience can identify a feeling.
emotion may be unclear. Audience can identify a feeling.
difficult time making an emotional connection or identifying the mood of the study.
Flow and Transition
Use of locomotor and axial movement is balanced. Clear and definitive beginning, middle, and end with smooth transitions connecting each section, etc.) Form and/or style is clear.
Use of locomotor and axial movement is balanced. Most transitions are well planned, beginning, middle, and end may be clear. Form and/or style is not clear.
Use of locomotor and axial movement is somewhat balanced. Beginning, middle, and end may be clear. Transitions are weak disrupting flow of movement.
Study lacks a strong beginning, middle or end, axial and locomotor movement is not balanced, or one is used predominantly over the other. Transitions are weak disrupting flow of movement.
Formative Assessment
Informal and formal formative assessment practices support student learning and
provide teachers with information to inform their teaching. Diagnostic assessment, as a
type of formative assessment, occurs before instruction begins to inform the teacher of
students’ prior knowledge and appropriate starting points for instruction. Observation of
students as they practice ongoing formative assessment that is authentic to learning in
dance and critical to embed in the instructional plan. Teacher, student, and peer
observation during a lesson allows the classroom teacher the opportunity to elicit
evidence of learning and provide immediate feedback. For example, when teaching a
time step, after providing direct instruction, students can independently practice alone or
with a partner (for peer observation) while the teacher circulates and observes. This
provides the teacher the opportunity to identify who needs additional support and who is
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mastering the step. The teacher can then redirect struggling students to ensure that all
students keep moving towards the learning goal—mastery of the time step.
Performance-based formative assessments can happen in the moment, during a dance
class, or following a small group performance. Performance-based formative
assessments are a demonstration of learning such as the demonstration of a movement
phrase or a dance technique. Formative assessments provide in-the-moment feedback
for the dancer and provide an opportunity to reinforce the skill or concept for observing
dancers. These assessments measure student progress and can ensure
misunderstandings and misapplications are addressed and rectified.
Assessment should develop sequentially, connecting and building upon related
concepts. Frequent formative assessments should occur throughout units of instruction
to monitor progress and lead to a final summative assessment. To ensure deeper
learning, dance teachers may consider how projects and performances are strategically
coordinated with assessments so that students may continue to practice and
demonstrate what they’ve learned.
Eliciting student input about their learning process can provide teachers with
opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions about learning and mastery. Self-
assessments, in writing or in conversation, in which students discuss what they have
learned, what they have mastered, and areas in which they are still developing,
provides valuable feedback to the teacher to inform next steps for instruction.
Critique and Feedback
Responding to dance through critique and feedback is an expectation of students in a
well-rounded standards-based dance education. Responding to dance is one of the four
artistic processes of the California Arts Standards. Feedback should provide a
balanced, non-biased view of the dancer’s current progress and encourage the student
to set challenging but reachable goals. Feedback should be balanced with opportunities
for improvement and a focus on what is working as opposed to what is not working.
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To provide their peers with oral and written feedback that is clear and non-biased,
students need to learn and practice how to critique. Teachers facilitate this by modeling
appropriate and constructive approaches to provide feedback, such as addressing what
is “noticed” about student work as opposed to what is perceived to be “wrong” with the
work. For example, one such approach is for teachers to use questioning to help
students identify strengths and weaknesses. A teacher may say, “I noticed you tend to
lean to one side when lifting the leg. Why do you think that is happening? Learning in
dance deepens when teachers provide students intentional opportunities to review their
own progress and the progress of their peers in a variety of ways and craft constructive,
informed responses.
Liz Lerman, in The Critical Response Process, indicates that there is a tendency in
critical response to merely call out how the artist made choices that are different from
what the responder would have made (2003). Instead, Lerman emphasizes, the
response process should center responses on the motivation and meaning for the artist,
which is revealed when the observers/responders provide the artist “statements of
meaning” articulating what the observer/responder found meaningful in the work. This
initial response is deepened through inquiry by the both the artist and
observers/responders, and finally explored with shared opinions of the
observers/responders provided with permission to the artist (2003). Lerman emphasizes
that “when defensiveness starts, learning stops” and therefore, feedback processes
must focus on the artwork itself and how it is communicating, rather than focus on the
artist’s feelings. “When we start by naming the fact that the work has meaning at all, and
offer options for responding to that meaning, we broaden the lens by which responders
can experience and comment. The new phrasing encourages responders to be more
specific by enabling them to name their experience and affords artists a different way of
accepting that information. The whole dialogue becomes less about the individual
psychology and more about the power of art” (Lerman and Borstel 2003).
Technology can help elevate the quality of assessment feedback. Students should have
the opportunity to be evaluated by peers, be able to view their work on video footage
and self-evaluate themselves in and out of class. Capturing progress on video can be
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valuable for both individual and group self-assessment in the rehearsal process. For
example, students may view and create notes on a video to offer suggestions on how to
refine technical accuracy and heighten body awareness. Utilizing online classrooms to
post class footage and assigning students to view this footage to analyze their work and
the work of their peers can provide powerful opportunities for student growth. Goal
setting and smart targets should be a part of each self-evaluation and students should
be able to reference their goals during the term.
A variety of applications and web-based tools are suitable for this purpose in a dance
classroom. When choosing a program or platform, teachers should consider whether
and how the program allows them to layer in feedback, alter video to slow-motion to
identify technical areas to improve, and export to classroom portals for student viewing
and collaboration.
Establishing a culture of feedback requires a safe learning environment. Dance students
need to know they can trust their teacher and that their teacher has their best interests
at heart. Helping students to understand that critique and feedback are valuable while
not personal is a subtle and important distinction. As dance is an activity centered within
the body, one’s vulnerability is revealed (for new dancers especially) which can be a
source of trepidation, especially among dancers who feel competitive with each other. It
is important to develop student understanding that feedback about technical
performance, when given in a kind manner, is a sign of respect from a teacher.
Teachers who ground feedback in genuine interest in student growth over time will earn
the respect of students. Taking the time to work individually with a student is also a
means to provide support in a respectful manner to clarify their understanding of
movement.
Creating norms for critique is essential. One norming approach is to layer feedback in
the form of a statement that includes one thing that a student did well and one thing that
a student can do to improve when observing a demonstration of movement may be
advisable, especially when students are first learning how to give and receive feedback.
Approaching feedback from a balanced perspective can help build trust between
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teachers to students and students to students and alleviate concerns about critique
existing simply as negative criticism. As students grow in their confidence, reinforcing
and expanding critique norms builds the process into the culture of the classroom.
Another valuable approach in fostering a positive culture in the classroom is to teach
students to say, “thank you” when receiving critique. Just as an audience applauds a
dancer as a sign of appreciation for the effort and performance, so too the dancer
thanks observers for the critique as a sign of appreciation for the insight provided. For
example, following a dance performance or rehearsal, a teacher may guide students in
a discussion of observations and response to the performance. Throughout this
discussion the dancer(s) listen to the observations of their classmates and teacher. At
the end of the discussion, the dancers respond to the feedback by saying, “Thank you
for this feedback, I am going to now consider….” This type of protocol reinforces to all
involved that critique is meant to help a student grow and improve. It reinforces that
feedback, when provided in a respectful way, is valuable for the growth of everyone
participating, the dancer and the observer.
Methods of Assessment
There are many methods to assessing learning in dance. The methods can range from
the simple to complex and from low tech to high tech. Teachers in dance have a wide
range of methods that can provide insight on student learning for themselves, their
students, and others. Whatever methods are used, teachers should ensure that the
methods are free from bias, provide constructive feedback to promote learning, illustrate
to learners their strengths, and establish future learning goals. The following provide
some of the various assessment methods.
Check for Understanding
Teachers and students can develop multiple simple check for understanding methods.
The use of established hand signals that students to use to indicate their confidence in
understanding aspects of concepts, skills, or understanding provide both teachers and
students. These signals provide a quick visual indication of student confidence in
learning before moving on in the instruction. Teachers can also give students a prompt
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to respond to on a small piece of paper or sticky notes to informally assess
understanding.
Self-reflection
Self-reflections written in response to intentional or open ended prompts or can be an
effective method of assessment. Self-reflection is a tenet of social and emotional
learning and is a skill that can be taught and practiced and when started in early in
dance instruction can improve students’ ability to build a growth mindset when creating,
performing, and responding to dance. Self-reflection can provide important evidence
and immediate feedback to the teacher and/or student regarding the progress toward
the intended learning. Self-reflection may be done in conversation between teachers to
students and students to students. Self-reflections do not have to take a lot of time, and
can be as simple as allowing students to reflect on their performance or engagement in
a dance activity by using a “fist to five” to show their own response to their performance
or a discussion with a neighbor of something new they learned or would do differently
next time.
Written reflection may ongoing journals, on paper, or on digital platforms. Online
reflections ensure that the students’ ideas can be read with ease, but the reality of all
students having access to computers or digital devices to complete such reflections
depends on the school and school district resources that exist for every student. Access
to digital devices should be available at school for those who cannot access at home.
Digital platforms can also be used to store individual and ensemble work, performances,
ideas, and other evidence of dance learning for assessment. Students can both store
and access their work for personal and group reflection and assessment, and to
maintain a portfolio to document their learning. These platforms can also be used to
share their reflections with their peers, family, and if desired or appropriate, the world.
Creation of Rubrics
Students can create classroom rubrics that identify the levels to which they should
achieve within the standards. If the teacher creates the rubrics, time should be given
prior to any assignment to ensure that the students understand the levels and
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descriptors of the rubrics, with examples of each. Students should clearly know the
expectations of every task or assessment and instruction should align to these intended
outcomes, which in turn supports students to create, explore, analyze, perform, or write
towards the skill and knowledge levels and outcomes.
While assessing with a rubric, both students and teachers can identify the levels to
which they believe the student achieved. Students can justify their choices in a
conversation or documenting through writing their perspective of why and how these
levels were achieved. The teacher can do the same, either with a written response or a
conversation with the student to share their thoughts, identifying evidence of
achievement and how the student can improve or expand on their learning, skills,
knowledge, and/or application of information.
Growth Model of Grading
A growth model of grading continuously supports and encourages students to improve
their scores rather than relying on one summative assessment as the final or finite
grade. In a growth model of grading, assessment should encourage improvement.
Including students in the grading process can helps develop internal motivation for
improvement, and reduce dependency on the external motivation created by the
teacher or grade. Some considerations for implementing this approach include allowing
students to repeat performance assessments, resubmit their work with documentation
of changes, or weighing earlier assignments with fewer points, so that as the learning
grows, so does the total points of the assignments. A grading system that supports
learning as a process is aligned with the process-oriented approach of the California
Arts Standards and supports the outcome of lifelong learners.
Supporting Learning for all Students in Dance
Emphasis Quote
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio Estrada—Director of Grants, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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The primary goals of the California Arts Standards are to help all California students
develop artistic literacy in which students
create and perform work that expresses and communicates their own ideas;
continue active involvement in creating, performing, and responding to dance;
respond to the artistic communications of others;
actively seek and appreciate diverse forms and genres of dance of enduring
quality/significance;
seek to understand relationships among dance, and cultivate habits of searching
for and identifying patterns, relationships between dance and other knowledge;
find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, meaning, and other life-
enhancing qualities through participation in dance;
support dance in their local, state, national, and global communities; and
appreciate the value of supporting dance.
Achieving these goals requires that all teachers, professional staff, administrators, and
district leaders share the responsibility of ensuring dance education equity for each and
every student, especially learner populations who are particularly vulnerable to
academic inequities in dance education.
California’s children and youth bring to school a wide variety of skills and abilities,
interests and experiences, and vast cultural and linguistic resources from their homes
and communities. California students represent diverse ethnic and religious
backgrounds and live in different familial and socioeconomic circumstances (United
States Census Bureau Quick Facts California 2016). Increased diversity in classrooms
and schools, increases the assets that teachers may draw from to enrich the dance
education experience for all. At the same time, the more diverse the classroom, the
more complex the teacher’s role becomes in providing high-quality instruction that is
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sensitive to the needs of individual students and leverages their particular assets. In
such multifaceted settings, the notion of shared responsibility is critical. Teachers,
administrators, expanded learning leaders, parents, guardians, caretakers, families, and
the broader school community need the support of one another to best serve all
students.
With over sixty languages other than English spoken by California’s students (United
States Census Bureau Quick Facts California 2016), there is a rich tapestry of cultural,
linguistic, ethnic, and religious heritages students can share. California students have a
range of skill acquisition and structural circumstances that impact their lives and
learning. It is important to acknowledge both the resources and perspectives students
bring to school, as well as the specific learning needs that must be addressed in
classrooms in order for all students to receive vital dance education. For an expanded
discussion on California’s diverse student population, see the English Language
Arts/English Language Development Framework for California Public Schools (2015).
As teachers inform themselves about particular aspects of their students’ backgrounds,
it is important they keep in mind that various student populations are not mutually
exclusive; these identities may overlap, intersect, and interact. Teachers should take
steps to understand their students as individuals and take responsibility for assessing
their own classroom climate and culture. Teachers should consider additional
assistance that may be required for any given student and help a student navigate
these resources. Teachers can refer students in need of services to appropriate
professionals, including the school nurse, administrators, counselors, school
psychologists, and school social workers, as available.
Universal Design for Learning and Differentiation
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework for improving
student learning experiences and outcomes through careful instructional planning
focused on the varied needs of all students, including students with visible and non-
visible disabilities, advanced and gifted learners, and English learners. The principles of
UDL emphasize providing multiple means of representation, action and expression, and
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engagement and options for various cognitive, communicative, physical, meta-cognitive,
and other means of participating in learning and assessment tasks. Through the UDL
framework, the needs of all learners are identified and instruction is designed
specifically to address student variability at the first point of instruction. This evidence-
based instructional planning supports students’ full inclusion in dance and reduces the
need for follow-up instruction. The table below provides an outline of UDL Principles
and Guidelines that dance teachers can use to inform their curriculum, instruction, and
assessment planning. More information on UDL principles and guidelines, as well as
practical suggestions for classroom teaching and learning, can be found at the National
Center for UDL and in the California ELA/ELD Framework (2015).
Table 3.19: Universal Design for Learning
PrinciplesProvide multiple means of …
GuidelinesProvide options for …
I. EngagementProvide multiple ways to engage students’ interests and motivation.
1. Recruiting interest2. Sustaining effort and persistence3. Self-regulation
II. RepresentationRepresent information in multiple formats and media.
4. Perception5. Language and symbols6. Comprehension
III. Action and ExpressionProvide multiple pathways for students’ actions and expressions.
7. Physical action8. Expression and communication9. Executive functions
(ELA-ELD Framework 2015, and CAST 2018)
The following vignette provides a glimpse of instructional planning with UDL. A sixth
grade teacher is preparing a unit of instruction in which students are using an artistic
intention to create their own choreography. The teacher uses the UDL principles and
guidelines to plan instruction.
Vignette: An Example of Planning Instruction Using UDL
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CREATING—Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: The elements of dance, dance structures, and
choreographic devices serve as both a foundation and a departure point for
choreographers.
Essential Question: What influences choice-making in creating choreograph?
Performance Standard: 6.DA:Cr2 a. Explore choreographic devices and dance
structures to develop a dance study that supports an artistic intent. Explain the goal or
purpose of the dance.
A sixth-grade teacher is preparing a unit of instruction in which students are using an
artistic intention to create their own choreography. In the unit, students will explore and
employ choreographic devices, understand the function of artistic intention in their work
and the work of others, and critique/analyze their own work and the work of their peers.
The teacher is planning for the segment of the unit which will guide students in the
understanding and use of artistic intention in their work and the work of others. Students
will be asked to view the work of professional choreographers to discuss the impact of
personal experience on the development of an artistic intention and choreography.
Students will be guided to create a short movement study which represents who they
are in movement. Students will be asked to respond to the following prompt in writing: “If
you knew me, you would know that I am….” Students should respond to the prompt
using adjectives as opposed to statements. For example, “strong,” “capable,” “quiet,”
“shy,” etc. Once students have created their lists, they will be asked to find a Laban
movement action/quality of movement which they feel corresponds to these words.
As the teacher plans this segment of the unit they consider the UDL guidelines and
checkpoints to design for student variability. The teacher begins by considering ways in
which to provide Multiple Means for Engagement.
To provide options for Recruiting Interest, the teacher considers
how to optimize individual choice and autonomy. To encourage choice and
personal significance, the teacher allows the students to create their own
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narrative about who they are and what words describe them. Using the prompt,
“If you really knew me, you would know I am…,” allows students to define
themselves in ways that may not be apparent to others. Students also have the
freedom to create movement which has a relationship to their personality and
personality traits.
how to optimize relevance, value, and authenticity. The writing prompt in this
portion of the unit allows the student to create work which has context to their
lives. The students can freely describe themselves in ways that are authentic and
personally engaging. The work allows students from different racial, cultural,
ethnic, and gender groups to speak freely about their personal experience and
self-awareness.
how to minimize threats and distractions. Some students in the teacher’s class
have difficulty writing or communicating in written form. To help students
formulate ideas and allow for more time for movement creation, the teacher will
create small posters with descriptive words students can choose from and write
on their papers in a fill in type of fashion.
EXAMPLE: If you knew me, you would know I am….
Once students have completed these worksheets, the teacher can allow students
to write a more formal paragraph using the worksheets as a template for their
writing.
Students should be encouraged to look for positive attributes about themselves
and view themselves from a place of value. Teacher should have students
consider the questions: “What makes you special and different from others?” or
“What do you admire about yourself?”
The teacher continues to design instruction considering options for sustaining effort and
persistence, and options for self-regulation. The teacher next considers Multiple Means
of Representation and Options for Perception, Language and Symbols, and
Comprehension.
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To provide Options for Comprehension, the teacher considers:
how to activate or supply background knowledge. Students will use prior
knowledge of choreographic principles to create movement ideas based on their
narrative work. The teacher will provide movement examples of how emotions,
thoughts and feelings can be transposed into movement. Students will explore
how imagery can help direct movement exploration and connect movement to
artistic intention. The teacher will allow students to view work with a strong
artistic intention and have students discuss their interpretation of these works
along with the artist’s description of how they developed the artistic intention.
Bridge concepts with relevant analogies and metaphors: The teacher plans time
to allow students to identify and brainstorm about what types of qualities
emotions and mood can take on in a physical form. How is body held when it is
proud (e.g., chin lifted, eyes up, shoulders back)? How is body held when it is
strong? When passive? When interested? When disinterested?
how to guide information processing and visualization & how to maximize
transfer and generalization: The teacher understands students may have
difficultly translating their descriptions into movement. Anticipating this, the
teachers plans to guide students in an in-depth study of how time, space, and
energy can change the quality and the interpretation of movement actions. For
example, what happens to the action of wring when it is slowed down or sped up.
How can a push change in size? What does a small quick percussive push say
versus a quick, large and swinging push? The teacher also scaffolds the
instruction so that students focus on one of their descriptive words at time and
then adds another encouraging thoughtful transitions between ideas.
The teacher continues to design instruction considering Multiple Means of Action
and Expression and options for Physical Action, Expression and Communication,
and Executive Functions.
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Planning instruction with UDL principles includes anticipating differentiation for learner
variability. Three ways differentiated instruction can occur in dance are 1) teaching by
invitation; 2) intratask variation; and 3) auto-differentiation, or automatic self-
differentiation.
Teaching by invitation is a method whereby the teacher explains a task, but also
explains potential modifications for less experienced dancers and challenges for more
experienced dancers. Students then self-select the best level of the task given their own
understanding of their ability and proceed to do it. Students who select a task that is too
challenging will often, after some trial and error, self-adjust to the general task, and
students who needed a modification but took the general task route, will realize that
they might need to take note of the modification. Similarly, students easily performing a
modified task can retry at the general level and students easily succeeding at the
general level may not have thought they were ready for the challenge but then do
attempt it.
When teachers give the option for students to make appropriate choices for their
learning, they recognize that students can determine what they are ready for and be
agents in their own learning.
The following snapshot is an example of the Teaching by Invitation Method.
Snapshot: Teaching by Invitation Example
A teacher teaches a series of turns that travels from one side of the room to the other,
that is done on the metatarsals (bones of the toes), with heels lifted off the floor. The
teacher gives the option to students to keep their feet flat and just focus on the
directions, head and eye placement, arm shape, tempo, rhythm, and distance covered
as they move through space, thus accomplishing the turns with many details except the
raised heels. Inclusion in the modified movement provides engagement for students that
may not have been ready or able to turn on the metatarsals. For the more advanced
dancer, the teacher asks them to take the tempo at double time or ask them to pick one
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foot off the floor in the turn and make an extra half or full circle rotation just on one foot,
heel up.
Intratask variation, by contrast, is differentiated instruction based on an informed
selection process that is teacher led. Students with multiple levels of ability can be
grouped with others ready for the same level of task. The variations given in intratask
approach are requested of specific individuals or groups selected by the teacher in the
moment. Sometimes, different groups who will get progressively harder instructions are
known in advance by the students themselves.
The following snapshot is an example of the Intratask Variation Method.
Snapshot: Intratask Variation Example
A teacher teaching a beginning series of mudras (hand gestures) from the
Bharatanatyam technique knows that there are three students who have studied this
form extensively. Therefore, the teacher provides an intratask variation by saying, “As a
class, we will all do these eight mudras in this order, and the students with previous
Bharatanatyam training, I would like you to add a foot pattern that could support these
hand gestures.”
The following snapshot is another example of the Intratask Variation Method.
Snapshot: Intratask Variation Example
A teacher establishes pre-existing groups and labels them A, B, and C. The groups
know that when it comes time for a certain move, the teacher expects the A group to do,
for example, the simplest version, the B group a little more complex and the C group the
most complex option. The A group knows that it is expected that they perform a single
turn or a circular motion with a body part, if they are unable to fully turn around, the B
group may be asked to attempt a double turn in every instance, and the C group might
be understood as potentially capable of performing a triple turn. The entire dance could
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be done in unison with the exception of the turning moments where the teachers
provides the differentiated mode and effectively decides (based on previous
observation, assessment and knowledge) who would benefit the most from each level of
difficulty presented. If, in intratask variation, a student discovers he or she has been
misclassified, it is easy to adjust mid task and assign that student to the next group. The
teacher might direct with, “You just did a double so I’m going to have you keep doing
those doubles. Please work with Group B.” Differentiating instruction using teaching by
invitation or intratask variation allows a teacher to have two, three, four or any number
of options for any given task.
Finally, some tasks are very open-ended and thereby provide automatic differentiated
learning for every individual in the dance classroom. These are auto-differentiating
tasks. Open-ended prompts create a totally customized movement experience.
The following snapshot is an example of using the auto-differentiation method through
open-ended prompts.
Snapshot: Open-ended Prompt Example
A teacher directs students to “move as slowly as you can during this piece of music,
gradually getting closer to someone else but not touching, and stop when you are within
a foot of another person in whatever shape you are in at that moment, and wait for
everyone else to come to stillness” will allow every participant to differentiate how they
move. Students will vary in what they do to travel, what body parts they travel with, what
level or pathway they take, and the speed at which they travel. “Going slow” is relative
to a person’s perception of slowness, which grows more fine-tuned with the use of the
imagination and practice in bodily control through dance learning. When this open-
ended prompt is given, students auto-differentiate and the result of repeating such an
exercise is students get better technically at slow motion and expand their notion of
what is really slow and how slowly someone can actually choose to go.
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The following snapshot is an example of how to differentiate movement instruction for
the variety of levels.
Snapshot: Supporting All Students Learning New Movements
Throughout the dance standards, locomotor and non-locomotor movements are
addressed as they provide the basic foundation for many dance movements. For
example, the first grade performance standard 1:DA.Pr5 calls for students to
“demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning,
body shapes and directionality.” This progresses in fourth grade to 4:DA.Pr5 which asks
the students to “demonstrate technical dance skills and movement characteristics when
replicating and recalling patterns and sequences of locomotor and non-locomotor
movements.” As gesture is a part of language development and locomotor and non-
locomotor movements are the foundational building blocks of dance, understanding how
to differentiate the instruction for the variety of levels within a class is important. A few
such strategies include the following:
Inform the students how many times they should do a movement and what to do
when they are done. For example, “I want you to jump forward four times and
then freeze.”
With non-locomotor movements, students can begin the movement with a small
part of their body and gradually bring the movement to their whole body. For
example, they can practice swinging their hand, then lower arm, full arm, upper
body and whole body.
Culturally Relevant and Linguistic Teaching
A culturally relevant curriculum is key to maximizing inclusivity and to building relational
trust in the classroom. Dance instruction and teaching that includes varied instructional
practices that honor students’ different learning styles, different levels of previous
training, and account for different social and religious sensibilities benefit all students’
learning. Students need to see representations of themselves and diverse peoples in
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pictures, videos and be exposed to music, visual arts, and dramatic texts insofar as they
support dance learning that are sourced from many regions and historical periods.
Culturally relevant dance curriculum materials will help students connect to the content.
Dance teaching that focuses on one culture (monocultural) for a unit or single course is
not necessarily inappropriate. Learning in dance requires some level of immersion in
whatever dance style is being taught, requires repetition, and repeated opportunities to
practice and build on the movements learned. Culturally relevant dance content and
methods should ensure that a variety of cultural styles of dancing and teaching dance
are explored by students over the years of their dance education.
The question of genre in dance (community, street, folk, social, concert, etc.) is an
essential curriculum consideration. It is important to develop a curriculum that goes
beyond a single teacher’s assumptions of what dance genres should comprise a
curriculum. To consider the scope of genres throughout the curriculum, teachers should
ask questions, such as the following:
What if a student studies one cultural dance genre only, such as jazz, during their
school years?
What if a student studies a different genre of dance every semester and never
repeats or expands a genre?
Schools and districts must address these questions when designing dance curriculum.
Striking a balance between diverse offerings and through lines in genres of dance is
important.
Note: Clarifying the Difference Between Genre and Styles in the Dance Standards
Genre is the overarching branch of dance that provides the large categories of dance
that tend to be derived originally from Folk, Social, Street, Community, or Concert
Dance practices. Genres have histories that change through time but also may inform
current practice. The purpose of a dance may be similar to the original purpose or very
much removed. Folk dances might be hybrids of stylistic influences from social and
concert dances, for example. Capoeira from Brazil may look like an energetic
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competitive high-spirited dance in a circle but it is widely acknowledged that Capoeira
originated as a form of martial arts of enslaved peoples.
A student when asked what kind of dance they are studying will usually refer to a style
of concert dance such as modern, ballet or jazz, or a style of social dance such as
salsa, tango, waltz, swing, or a style of street dance such as hip-hop. These style
names correspond more with origins and a history than with where those dances are
now done. Modern dance can be found in an open public space in the city. Hip hop is
found on the concert stage. Ballet may be performed in a virtual environment through
animation, and swing dance might be done at a wedding if swing dance is the favorite
dance style of the couple.
Style refers to the particular way a genre has developed due to regional differences,
individual artist’s innovations, purposes, and emphasis. For example, there are multiple
styles of hip-hop found in different cities and different eras. Particular movement
qualities are emphasized in the various styles. A dancer might be proficient in one hip-
hop style and just a beginner in another style of the same genre. The instruction should
provide students with a wide offerings of both genre (large category) and style (smaller
categories) in dance appropriate for the students’ age and grade level. Over time, there
may be fluidity between style and genre in which a style evolves into a genre.
Contemporary dance is fluid.
A well-rounded dance curriculum should contain a diversity of styles and avoid a
hierarchy of one style’s prominence over another. It is important that teachers provide
instruction that is balanced between known styles and the new styles. Revisiting a style
over time is important for advanced achievement in that style. Some through-lines of
styles can also assist with the feelings of progress and identity for a dancer, however,
students also need to be introduced to new styles over time. In the effort to diversify a
curriculum across genres and styles teachers need to remember that muscle memory is
only built through repeated exposure.
Recognizing and honoring students’ linguistic traditions and the cultures that are
connected to those languages creates a rich atmosphere for learning for all students.
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Bilingualism and multilingualism should be celebrated and explored. Dance is a
language and linguistically diverse student groups benefit from the democratizing of the
classroom that dance promotes. Culturally and linguistically relevant teaching, theorized
in 1995 by Gloria Ladson-Billings in her landmark article “Toward a Theory of Culturally
Relevant Pedagogy” informed a generation of teachers about the need to consider how
practices involving monocultural and monolinguistic frameworks excluded students.
Students who are English learners are offered opportunities in learning dance that are
not English language dependent. Zaretta Hammond, in Culturally Responsive Teaching
and the Brain, took Ladson-Billings’ research further. Hammond integrates
neuroscience and learning theory with cultural and linguistic responsiveness in the
classroom to prove, in essence, that culturally responsive teaching is not only useful but
absolutely necessary. She articulates the way in which students without a cultural or
linguistic connection to the class content or context simply cannot learn and will not
likely achieve higher order thinking as readily as when they are recognized for their
cultural and linguistic gifts and these attributes and stores of knowledge are honored
and count for something in the classroom. Therefore, in the teaching of dance, the wider
the array of genres, styles, origins, and functions of dance that are explored, the less
likely a student is to feel that one culture, not their own, dominates the curriculum. For
example, a dance teacher may share knowledge of modern dance but not give
opportunities for students to share their own knowledge of other dance forms or present
a dance form in which they have expertise. Students can benefit from having input on
the dance styles and from influencing the curriculum due to the knowledge and
experience they bring to the classroom.
Culturally relevant dance content and methods should ensure that students explore a
variety of cultural, societal, and historical genres and styles. Dance standards under
Responding emphasize this important aspect of learning in dance. Table 8 provides a
sampling of these important standards.
Table 3.20: Sample Responding Standards in Dance
Standard Code Performance Standard1.DA:Re7b Demonstrate and describe observed or performed dance
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Standard Code Performance Standardmovements from a specific genre or culture.
7.DA:Re7bCompare and contrast how the elements of dance are used in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology.
Prof.DA:Re7bExplain how dance communicates aesthetic and cultural values in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology.
In dance, teachers and students can create, explore, learn, and study dance that
sustains the cultural traditions of the students themselves as well as other traditions of
different time periods and places. Culture is sustained when it is passed on through the
art of dance and culture and languages are enlivened when a new generation of
learners adopts them, even if temporarily for a class project or a performance. In order
to avoid the pitfalls of cultural appropriation while doing culturally sustaining or relevant
work, dance students and teachers should know the sources and acknowledge from
where the information, style, and practice generates. Teachers play a critical role in
modeling for students respectful practices when providing instruction on cultural dance
forms. Careful thought and planning must precede such instruction to ensure that
historical sources and cultural influences are recognized within the classroom setting to
help provide context for students in understanding the development of the dance work.
Teaching the history of the dance form can help students to develop critical thinking
skills and sensitivity to other cultures. Through the study of multicultural dances,
students gain a deeper understanding of the cultures they are derived from and what
the movements symbolize. It is through the understanding of why a dance exemplifies a
specific culture, the time period it represents and/or the function of the dance that one
will become dance literate, or able to fully understand what the dance symbolizes.
Performance standard 11 has students learn throughout the year about other cultures
through multicultural dances. For instance, the third grade standard 3:DA.CN11 reads,
“Find a relationship between movement in a dance from a culture, society, or
community and the culture from which the dance is derived. Explain what the
movements communicate about key aspects of the culture, society, or community.”
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As students learn dances from various time periods, such as the American circle
dances of the 1800s or contemporary hip hop dances, they will also come to understand
how the function of the dance, to entertain, to celebrate, or to represent religious or
cultural beliefs, represents the beliefs of that era or culture. When dance is culturally
relevant to students, representing their own cultures, it acknowledges who they are and
recognizes their voice and history.
The following snapshot provides a glimpse of culturally relevant teaching.
Snapshot: An Example of Culturally Relevant Teaching
CONNECTING—Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal,
cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: Dance literacy includes deep knowledge and perspectives
about societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts.
Essential Question: How does knowing about societal, cultural, historical and
community experiences expand dance literacy?
Process Component: Relate
Performance Standard: 3.DA:Cn11 Find a relationship between movement in a dance
from a culture, society, or community and the culture from which the dance is derived.
Explain what the movements communicate about key aspects of the culture, society, or
community.
When teaching a unit on the Mexican folk dance “Los Machetes,” the teacher introduces
the students by first looking a picture on a map of Jalisco, Mexico and together they
read a book to give background information about that state and country. In addition to
practicing the choreography, students learn how the repetitive movements with the
machetes (or for elementary students, how they use their arms extended straight above
their heads to represent that they are holding machetes) replicates the important
practice of using machetes to help harvest crops, such as sugar cane. Learning that
mariachi music originates from Jalisco explains why it is fitting that mariachi styled
music accompanies this dance. The teacher plays a video of adults performing “Los
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Machetes” to frontload a discussion on how their movements replicate the cutting of the
crops with the machetes.
Teaching the historical and cultural relevance of “Los Machetes” gives students a
deeper understanding of the cultural movement practice, the “physical movement of a
dance that one associates with a particular country, community or people” (CAS 2019).
Having a larger discussion about each of the components of the dance mentioned
above extends the students’ understanding from that of the physical movements to what
they represent and why they are important.
Students Who Are English Learners
Students who are learning English, or English learners (ELs), are developing their
abilities to listen, speak, read and write in English. Therefore, they will benefit from
having many ways to access the language of dance. This can include, but is not limited
to: listening to the academic language of dance being used, having opportunities to
practice talking about the subject matter, writing about it, and reading about dance by
“reading” or watching dances. In other subjects, students learning English often face
barriers to understanding the content due to their limited language proficiency.
However, since dance is kinesthetic, all students can actively participate, despite their
language proficiency. In addition, ELs benefit from having dance terminology visually
displayed as well as spoken. Sentence frames can help them express content being
taught. For example, “I noticed the use of … in that dance.” Or, “I noticed the use of …
when you ...” Further, when students use movement to help them remember dance-
specific terms or concepts, it increases their likelihood they will remember what they are
being taught. The collaborative and creative nature of dance and choreography provide
authentic opportunities for students to practice speaking in their new language and
learning from peers.
Educational programs for ELs should include challenging content and well-developed
learning strategies that prepares them to think critically, solve problems, and
communicate in the language(s) of instruction. Students learning English should be
actively engaged in standards-based academic curriculum and have rigorous,
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supportive, equitable learning experiences in all content areas, including dance.
Students learning English can exhibit varying degrees of proficiency in the different
aspects of language and benefit from explicit, supportive instruction and extra time.
Teachers should become familiar with students’ levels of proficiency to support them
appropriately.
Students with Disabilities
Traditional notions of “rigor” need to be rethought with regard to inclusive dance
practices for students with disabilities. Rigor is often associated with technical prowess
or virtuosity, or a whole body muscularity and coordination. This narrow definition of
rigor can eliminate dance study or training entry points for dancers with disabilities.
People who danced before acquiring a disability will have much dance knowledge that
they still carry with them. People who came to dance after a disability or were born with
one will also be able to achieve rigor. What does this look like in a classroom of mixed
abilities and challenges? Being able to translate (use various parts of the body to
express a similar idea) is a significant technical ability. Being able to adapt an exercise
designed for a person without known disabilities and doing it as a person with a
disability requires rigor as well. Dancers with different abilities learn from and challenge
each other. Time to experiment is also important; teachers need to be able to try things
and learn from mistakes and collaborate with students whose disabilities we do not
share or experience ourselves.
Teachers, students, administrators, and stakeholders recognize the need to advocate
and ensure inclusion, access, and equity in the dance classroom. People with
disabilities want to be held to high standards, strive to meet challenging goals and solve
complex problems. Holding students with disabilities to high standards in dance is very
important. Maximizing movement’s expressive potential is the goal, no matter what the
amount of movement or type of movement is a person can do.
Just as teachers are accustomed to getting to know the personality of their students at
the start of the school year, it is crucial for teachers to learn about the visible and non-
visible disabilities their students may have. Reading the Individual Education Plans
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(IEPs) or 504 plans, which outline the needs of the student and how to support them
with those needs, will guide the teacher’s plan for how to accommodate or modify
lessons for those students. Student disabilities are sometimes physically apparent, but
not always, so becoming informed is a crucial first step. From there, decisions can be
made about modifying or accommodating the lessons as needed. Modifications adjust
what content a student is taught and expected to learn. Examples of modifications in a
dance classroom include teaching a shorter dance routine or having a student focus on
learning just the footwork within a dance, instead of what the feet and arms do.
Accommodations within a dance classroom change how a student learns or accesses
the content. Examples of accommodations in a dance class when teaching the creating
or performing standards include providing additional time for the student to practice a
dance or giving the student multiple options for expression such as speaking, writing
and/or drawing when working on the responding standards (i.e., answering to questions
about a dance that was watched).
Educating the public about access and inclusion in dance remains a significant issue to
address. Dance programs can be a site of extra cooperation, empathy and engagement
for all dancers working together to understand the access and inclusion journey of each
of their peers. Dance provides students, both with and without disabilities, a unique
opportunity to share their talents with each other.
Dance provides students, both with and without disabilities, a unique opportunity to
share their talents with each other. Including examples, pictures and videos of dance
companies that celebrate and engage collaboration between dancers with and without
disabilities, reinforces the dance capacities and contributions people with a range of
abilities have to offer.
Students Who Are Gifted and Talented
There are three key components that are crucial to supporting gifted and talented
learners in dance instruction: affective, cognitive, and instructional. Through
understanding these components, parents and teachers may better help the advanced
learners maximize her or his performing arts potential and achieve their dreams.
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Affective, or emotional issues can be more profound for advanced learners. Advanced
or gifted learners often possess acute perception along with an inner compass for adult
professionalism or lack thereof. An unusual insight into moral issues, an ability to
empathize with others, and a high regard for beauty all combine to make advanced
learners highly sensitive. Such sensitivity may also work against them when they
intuitively understand what “perfect” should look like, especially in dance. Perfectionism,
the double-edged sword, drives the advanced learner to achieve, yet torments them
when they don’t. Leading to feelings of failure, this inner locus of control may actually
hold the student back when she or he does not believe her/himself capable of
attainment of the ideal. Practice and development over time to acquire new dance skills
may be especially difficult for advanced learners as they cognitively see what they want
to do, however cannot yet achieve it physically. Advanced learners can easily maintain
fixed mindsets, as many learning endeavors come easily for them. When they
encounter a challenge, they often do not realize that growth is possible and only
recognize their failure or lack. Teachers of dance should note this and give extra time
and attention to analyze the approach of a student who exhibits keen perception but
frustration at the same time.
The advanced learner does so many things well, and with such little effort, that pushing
through such inner conflict in order to persevere may prove too daunting. Parents and
educators should teach advanced learners that small “failures” are part of the process
and perseverance produces big reward. Sometimes it helps for the student to witness a
parent, other mentor, or teacher struggling with a new task, stumbling and falling a bit
while on the front end of the learning curve. The teacher can gently teach and model for
the student that everyone struggles with something in dance, and there is no shame in
not knowing how, not being perfect, or not achieving the first time around, growth takes
time.
Highly imaginative cognitively advanced students may need to see themselves creating
beauty with their music or dance. They may feel like failures when their practice
sessions are “ugly” or awkward. These young dancers are quite likely to hold to an
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image of perfection derived from the work of more accomplished artists. In holding
themselves to such exacting standards, they create inner conflict and angst.
The advanced learner may strive to understand and internalize a choreographer’s
intention but be frustrated when that intention is not articulated in words. Without the
proper coaching from a sensitive teacher, the student may feel a sense of vagueness,
and feel unable to invest emotionally in a performance. Such disconnection may elicit
feelings of failure in the advanced dance student. Due to these subtle complexities,
advanced learners may be unsatisfied with their work, even when all around them
praise and adore their accomplishments (Sand 2000).
Advanced learners may throw themselves into a production or program wholeheartedly.
They can become deeply frustrated when choreographers, students, or other
participants do not share their pursuit of excellence. Acknowledgement of the student’s
dilemma serves as a validation of the importance of the student’s work. Beyond
understanding, the dance teacher should need to strive to give the student whatever
instruction is needed in order to help them reach their internal ideal.
To support learning in dance and acknowledge the variability in all students, the
following chart highlights possible instructional strategies, accommodations, and
modifications organized by the UDL guidelines for teachers to consider. As students
grow toward being an expert learner, students begin to take on the capacities or
attributes and direct their own strategies.
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Instructional Strategies, Accommodations, and Modifications to: Provide Multiple Means of Engagement
Recruiting Interest
Establishing trust and meaningful personal connections with all students will help students more effectively respond to challenges and learning opportunities. In order to create a culturally responsive curriculum, dance educators can use music from the student’s home country in class, or include in-depth dance studies about the students’ country of origin as part of the curriculum. Making an effort to get to know the student by researching the student’s culture and language, inviting the student to present a dance from their culture, participating in home visit programs, and reaching out to families during family conferences establishes a sense of respect and inclusion.
It is important to create an environment of experimentation and respect in which risk-taking is valued. Respond positively to students, as all students need to feel comfortable about making mistakes in order to maximize learning.
Students can also have opportunities to use the styles of dance they have learned when working on a dance assignment, even if that style has not been taught in class.
Sustaining Effort and Persistence
Connecting new learning and prior experiences
Peer partnerships can maximize collaboration, and documentation of the artistic process throughout all tasks.
Scaffold the tasks from simple to complex as needed for student learning, presenting the material in multi-sensory modalities.
Using strategies to deepen the rigor such as the Prompts for Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives. Examples include questions such as: “Throughout time, what parallels exist in the ways dances have represented cultural beliefs?” Or, “How does the context (when, where, background of the choreographer) a dance is created in effect its big idea or meaning? How would the meaning of the dance differ if it had been created under a different context?”
Provide students with opportunities to think and dance on a more advanced level. For example, instead of asking students to combine two locomotor movements, students can be asked how at least two locomotor movements can be done with a smooth transition between them. They can be encouraged to think of transitions for movements that don’t piece together as easily, such as leap and crab walk.
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Self-Regulation
Teachers should acknowledge students’ efforts and provide positive feedback, building on students’ responses, and try gently “recasting” toward a correct answer. For example, if a student says, “We make first rows,” the teacher can respond with, “Oh, okay. So first, we should get into rows.” The teacher can use a gesture to demonstrate “rows” as they recast the student’s statement.
Use of technology to video the development of the dance and revisions for self-reflection and for presentation to the class.
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Perception Use multi-sensory modalities including visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning.
Include short videos, visuals, and graphic organizers in dance instruction.
Provide written, pictograph, or verbal prompts in the creation, rehearsal and performance of the solo.
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Perception Vocalize and physicalize the movement phrases in time with the students. For example, the teacher might sing along to the music at the ballet barre: “Plié, stretch, develop front and rond de jambe,” or for a jazz combination, “Pivot step, pivot step, axial turn, jazz hands.” It also helps to display the sequence on chart paper or on an interactive whiteboard.
For students with visual impairment, the teacher uses descriptive language in the guided exploration of movement and the teacher or peer quietly describes the choreography when performed by classmates.
Enlargements of the text on an interactive whiteboard, projector, or chart paper assist the whole class as they go over difficult text. Students can work with partners for the independent portion of reading activities, and are given direct access to a range of dictionaries, including picture dictionaries and bilingual glossaries. Where possible, students may independently utilize a device with Internet connection where they can access bookmarked resources such as online image libraries, online translation tools, and dance-specific multi-media resources.
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Language and Symbols
Label dance and classroom materials with words and visual images to help students connect spoken and written language with the materials they are expected to use.
Encourage research of the concepts through pictures and symbols as well as performing the movement and speaking the word at the same time.
Display the dance elements in the classroom in written and symbolic language, in braille or audio for student reference.
Word walls co-created with students and organized by genres or types of movement elements are more effective than the traditional alphabetical word wall as they support students in making connections between movement categories. For example, a dance word wall could be organized according to the Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) categories of BODY (what body parts are used and basic actions), EFFORT (the movement qualities used when moving), SPACE (where one moves), and RELATIONSHIPS (between dancers, to the music and rhythms, to a choreographic structure). Word walls should be visible and physically accessible to students. Ideally, word walls should also be interactive so that both teachers and students can physically take words off the word wall and display them for discussion or to illustrate or try out choreographic sequences. When a group of fourth graders are asked to use different kinds of spatial formations in a choreography task, students can go right up to the word wall and pull off words to help them with their dance-making choices.
Number the parts of any given task by using finger-counting or a numbered list so that students can check for completion as they work.
Language and Symbols
When exposing all students to more complex, non- fiction printed materials (such as dancers’ biographies, interviews, or critical reviews), teachers attend to the language demands of the text and how the key ideas of the text are supported with teacher-created focus or guiding questions, illustrations, charts, text features, movements, or other clues that can help students to identify and decode what is most important about a text.
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Comprehension Start with a common experience (video, hands-on activity, provocative visual) to build background knowledge and provide a concrete anchor for more abstract discussions about dance.
Use various graphic organizers for thinking and writing about dance content.
Teacher and peer modeling provides students with opportunities to visually see what is expected of them and encourages participation. When giving instructions for a procedure, an activity, or a choreography task, the teacher makes sure to physically model the expected process as part of the explanation. For example, the teacher might call on one student to repeat the first direction in a task. As he/she says it correctly, the teacher or a student helper writes the step on chart paper or on an interactive whiteboard. Next, a student is called on to physically model the part of the task. These simple steps (restate, chart, and model) continue for each part of the task until it is clear that students understand the procedure for the entire task.
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Comprehension Graphic organizers support authentic discussion by including sentence starters or language frames that promote student conversation related to the task. For example, a graphic organizer could include a series of boxes where each element of a choreography task contains a sentence starter such as, “We can create a variation of … by changing the (level/facing/reaching/time/energy/etc.) of the movement.” The language in the graphic organizer is used by the teacher while explaining and physically modeling the dance task. The purpose of these graphic organizers or process charts is to support student engagement and active language use. They may also provide interesting information and context for the student and work as a formative assessment tool that can help teachers make future instructional choices.
Provide a language-rich environment for dance students, including leveled books and picture books. When reading picture books, the teacher points to pictures when appropriate, using an expressive voice and facial expressions to help illustrate the text. Children can also be asked to dance parts of the text. For example, students might create a gesture or axial movement motif to embody an element of the story, such as a soaring eagle or a howling wind that might become part of a movement sentence.
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Physical Action Immerse students in language through conversations and discussions. It is helpful to provide both definitions and rich contextual information for terms used in dance class, addressing general academic words, dance-specific words and phrases, and dance- specific meanings of multiple-meaning words. After emphasizing key terms for each lesson while teaching through physical modeling, verbal emphasis, color-coding, and pictures when possible, plan for multiple meaningful exposures to the words.
Give opportunities to use the words in speaking and writing in the dance class. For example, students can use the academic language of dance through authentic choreographic tasks, in speaking, and in writing. Or, teachers can ask students to plan and execute a 32-count tap sequence where they have to choose from a menu of different actions (dig, shuffle, stamp, etc.). Teachers can direct students to write down the phrase or to organize a series of small color-coded cards with the names of the actions before they perform their phrase. This is a way to check for understanding and to reinforce the connection between the words and the body actions. In addition, highlighting cognates and roots of words/morphology may be helpful.
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Expression and Communication
Speak, chant, and/or sing the names of the body actions in a sequence to support students in connecting terminology and movement.
Presentation of research and artistic statement can be in written, auditory, or pictorially displayed.
Use technology, if applicable, to record pictures/video and written narrative on the dance-making process.
Provide alternative ways of expressing and communicating movement choices through written words, pictures, symbols, assistive technology, movement demonstration or auditory choices.
Provide daily opportunities for students to talk about content through collaborative choreographic tasks. Students make choices in collaboration with a partner or in a small group as they work together and share ideas. Make accountable talk an expectation of the class, and structure student interactions so expectations for what they should be talking about—and how they should talk—are clear. For example, students could be asked to create a 64-count West African dance phrase that incorporates at least four of the steps learned in class, two original variations, and at least 16 counts of either counterpoint or canon. Make sure to model all the elements of the task (see “Modeling” above). In addition, it may be helpful to pair students who speak the same home language so they can support one another. For example, they can translate and/or discuss their ideas in their home language prior to sharing with the whole class.
Expression and Communication
Accommodate movement limitations and restrictions as indicated on health and wellness form (heart conditions, allergies, asthma, or other physically limiting conditions.)
Accommodate for differentiation in communication abilities including but not limited to sign language, gestures, sounds, facial expressions, and assistive technology.
Executive Functions
Develop, maintain, and post clear and simple routines to help students anticipate procedures. Routines become familiar over time and facilitate understanding of dance class language and structure.
Develop content-specific goals and accommodations based on the student’s IEP and consultation with the Special Education teacher.
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Considerations for Instruction in Dance
Emphasis Quote
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their
passion.
Martha Graham—Dancer, Choreographer
Approaches and Methodologies in Dance Instruction
Dance instruction should be organized with the whole body in mind. Teachers should
consider not only the skills students are being asked to perform but also the cognitive
and intellectual thinking which accompanies the skill. Discussing what body part initiates
the movement, how the spine responds to a particular shape and using imagery are
ways to prompt students to think deeply about how and why they move. Allowing
students to reflect on the how, why, who, and where of the movement idea provides for
greater understanding of movement ideas and deeper respect for the concept and
discipline. Instruction should be organized to develop a strong sense of personal
identity, self-regulation, and purpose, and provide multiple opportunities for reflection
and goal setting while challenging and refining a student’s thinking about dance. The
standards for the artistic process Responding build this capacity in students as students
view dance and share their thinking about dance through methods such as pair share,
reflective writing, Socratic seminars, and critical analysis.
Rebecca Enghauser, in “The Quest for an Ecosomatic Approach to Dance Pedagogy,”
discusses how an ecosomatic paradigm for dance teaching and learning should
emphasize the following:
Sensing, from the inside out, rather than relying only on imitational practices
Experiential modes of learning, such as improvisation, experiential anatomy,
authentic movement, or other strategies
Practices that acknowledge and apply a basic cognizance of the sociocultural
construction of body
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A balance of instructional approaches and philosophies, which includes a non-
authoritarian, healthy learning environment that challenges each student
Fostering the development of each student’s creative, artistic voice in dance
Creative problem-solving approaches in the learning of technical skills and
concepts
The discipline of dance as intrinsically motivated mindful practice that stems from
empowerment and somatic authority
A fervent nurturing of creativity and imagination
(2007).
The following table provides examples for what ecosomatic recommendations may look
like in teaching dance.
Table 3.24: Ecosomatic Recommendation Examples
Recommendation Example of what this might look like
Sensing, from the inside out, rather than relying only on imitational practices.
Turning the class away from the mirror and having students close their eyes as they safely. Experiment with a movement or movement phrase.
Experiential modes of learning, such as improvisation, experiential anatomy, authentic movement, or other strategies.
Using skeletons and visual body maps to identify bones and muscles structures. Instead of saying, “Turn out your legs,” identifying the trochanter with students and then asking students to “rotate the trochanters toward the back of the body.” Using imagery with instruction: “Allow the top of the head to press upward towards the ceiling as the balls of the feet grow roots into the ground.”
Practices that acknowledge and apply a basic cognizance of the sociocultural construction of body.
An understanding of body types as they relate to socio-cultural groups that exist in the classroom and valuing all forms of these types. Using language, which does not privilege one body type over another.
The discipline of dance as intrinsically motivated mindful practice that stems
Allowing for student voice and choice in the process of your pedagogical habits in ways such as investigating student music choice and using that music in your
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Recommendation Example of what this might look likefrom empowerment and somatic authority.
class activities, asking students what exercise/skill they would like to review first, weekly check in’s with students to see what their immediate needs are, and addressing those needs in your lesson planning.
A fervent nurturing of creativity and imagination.
Encouraging a “no-wrong-answer” community in classes. Students are encouraged to answer questions with hypothesis or theory ideas. Teaching students to use prior knowledge to answer questions. Embracing and celebrating failure as a vehicle for improvement in the arts. Encouraging creative problem solving in movement problems.
The California Arts Standards require students to think deeply about dance, write about
dance, reflect about dance, talk about dance, and perform dance. Classes can be
structured so that students begin working as soon as they enter the classroom having
them respond to a dance related opening activity. For example, students can engage in
a quick-write activity to quickly discuss on paper an idea or concept which will be
presented in class. These opening activities promote discourse or creative problem
solving. Collaboration in problem solving can engage learners who are hesitant or lack
confidence in working independently.
Instruction in dance should contain a balance of the familiar and the unfamiliar. It is also
important for dance learning to pair familiar music with music that expands the
knowledge base and understandings of dancers. Movement that is familiar combined
with movement that is new to the student is intellectually engaging, builds socio-
emotional and empathetic understanding due to exposure, and provides a different
kinesthetic, or psycho-motor challenge, given different dances use different physical
tactics, strategies, and moves to express themselves.
Teachers can provide contrasting experiences, such as a dance from a setting that is
somewhat familiar to many students and a dance from a less familiar setting. In fact,
three different sources for one style of dance might really be ideal to spark the student’s
imagination. Creating a balanced curriculum of both familiar and less familiar
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movements entails anticipating and learning about the unique exposure individuals have
had to dance before a class begins rather than relying on superficial categorizations.
Teachers should design dance lessons with a balance of direct and guided instruction,
and ample time for guided and independent practice within each lesson. Students
should receive information in meaningful but digestible chunks designing movement
phrasing which builds from the foundational movement into more complex tasks as they
are ready. Verbal, visual, and auditory cues help students memorize phrasing and
develop the muscle memory needed in dance. Sequences should be broken down into
verbally-descriptive chunks as needed, rather than simply just using counts to organize
phrasing. Dance teachers should provide periodic instruction breaks or shifts to allow
students time to process information and allow the body time to recuperate and fully
process the instruction and instructional cues. Switching to a review of a previously
taught concept and allowing students to identify the similarities between the new
concept and the old is a helpful strategy to facilitate necessary breaks. Another strategy
to provide a break is asking students to utilize the new concept in an informal or
improvisational way.
Instruction in dance for the primary grades requires additional consideration as students
are still developing their gross motor skills and learning how to control their bodies as
they move through space. The standards in the artistic process Performing require
students to learn how to move within their own personal space, defined in the standards
as, “the area of space directly surrounding one’s body extending as far as a person can
reach; also, called the kinesphere.” Teachers should guide students through practice in
how to move without bumping into anyone else or hurting themselves.
Note: Strategies for Helping Students Move Safely Within the Dance Space
Direct students to blow their “bubble” of personal space by squatting on the floor and
slowly rising to a standing position with their arms and legs stretched out. As students
stand in their “bubble” they should look to the left and right to make sure they have
enough room to move without bursting into anyone else’s bubble. If a student struggles
to stay within their personal space, put a jump rope on the floor in the shape of a circle
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or a hula hoop on the floor to clearly define how much space the student has available
to move within. Students who struggle to stay within their personal space, can be placed
in an area of the room where they will have additional space to move.
Dance instruction takes place within the school day and should be equally prioritized
with other learning opportunities, subjects, and content areas. Dance may be
supplemented with after school opportunities for further practice, enrichment, and
exploration. Dance curriculum should be continuous, sequenced, and accessible by all
students, based on the California Arts Standards for dance, and clearly articulated for all
stakeholders. Chapter 2 provides general guidance for such a curriculum. Through a
well-designed, articulated, and fully implemented dance curriculum all students can
develop abilities to create, perform, respond in dance, and connect their dance learning
to a broader understanding of themselves, others, and the larger world.
Dance curriculum should enable students to develop understanding of concepts,
academic language, and skills over time and at increasingly sophisticated levels. As an
example, students should have ample opportunities to study concepts of dance, such as
“balance” across grade levels, through student centered inquiry approaches, and
multiple cultural and stylistic contexts.
The curriculum articulates the delivery model used to provide dance instruction in
accordance with the local dance teaching context. At the secondary levels, students
should have access to a range of specialized dance courses that provide advanced
courses, often found within course sequences, to prepare students pursuing dance
beyond high school. In sequential courses in high school programs, the amount of time
devoted to each artistic process in each course level may differ, however at the end of
the course sequence students have had instruction and are able to demonstrate
learning in all four artistic processes.
Considerations for a Safe Dance Studio and Environment
Learning in dance is for everyone, children and adults of all ages. The classroom
environment for powerful dance learning must promote an inclusive and welcoming
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energy between teacher and students as well as between students. Emotional safety is
a high priority given the inherent vulnerability experienced in movement.
Beginning student dancers are learning about how their body works and moves,
acquiring dance academic language in their bodies and minds, and learning to respond
to dance as an emerging dancer and audience member. They need to develop and use
personal body awareness to understand their kinesthetic space and how their
kinesthetic bubble may interact with others in the room. This kinesthetic experience
offers opportunities for students to develop their skills for sensing each other and the
variety of ways of relating with each other in movement. As a result, respect for self and
others is a core value that must be taught and present within all moments within the
classroom.
Ensuring that teachers provide the learning conditions that support a growth mindset in
students is beneficial in teaching dance. Special care is needed on the part of teachers
in teaching dance in establishing and maintaining a classroom culture that supports and
encourages behavior reflective of a growth mindset. Appropriate teacher talk can help
learners understand that their goal as a dancer is to progress in their skills and
confidence over time and that each dancer is on their own unique growth journey.
Teachers can support students through classroom conversations that build students’
confidence and reinforces their personal growth. Conversation starter examples include:
“Did you know that dance can help you build dendrites in your brain so you can
develop the connections in your body for muscle memory?”
“Be gentle with yourself as you learn. The only dancer you compete against is
yourself. Individual growth over time is our goal.”
“How are we feeling about what we have accomplished at the end of this unit
compared to how we felt early on in learning the movement material?”
It is also essential for teachers to honor their own commitment to lifelong learning as
dancers through the lens of growth mindset; words matter. When adults say they cannot
dance, they inappropriately communicate to students that dance learning is not for
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everyone but for a select few. This subtle undermining of growth mindset threatens the
safety of learners as they seek to take risks, challenge themselves, and remain open to
new experiences. All learners must start the process of learning somewhere and
students need to hear language from the adults in their environment that is supportive of
their learning process.
Dance is body-dependent; the dancer is the instrument for dance. Fine-tuning,
strengthening, lengthening, and preparing that instrument for the demands of dance is
an art in itself. When teaching dance, teachers need to understand anatomical
functioning and make sure to honor the natural workings of the joints and muscles in
facilitating a healthy and safe dance lesson. Teachers should plan proper warm-ups,
and give corrections and feedback when dancers are not working in a sustainable way.
Teachers need to be mindful of how to include injury prevention in the dance technique
class, and be able to understand and modulate the intensity of a class based on both
individual and whole class ability. Learning in all of the arts disciplines is time intensive
and highly embodied. Dancers both learn and study at the same time when learning in
dance. However, in dance, to learn technique, students must be observed by the
teacher for safe, appropriate alignment and nuances of movement.
Effective dance instruction promotes student centered inquiry and provides multiple
options and means for students to demonstrate their learning. Students come with a
range of physical abilities, all students should be given equally challenging and rigorous
work that allows them to engage as fully and thoroughly as possible with the learning
outcomes of the course. Students should move through the space safely to the best of
their abilities using supports such as props, devices, and visual aids as needed to
provide options for engagement, creating, performing, and communication.
Assignments should be as demanding for all students and not dependent on a narrow
or ableist view of technique or attributes of a dancer or a dance.
Injured or ill students should not be made to dance. Alternative experiences such as
observing class, taking notes, and giving feedback, will help a student sitting on the
sidelines stay engaged. Teachers need to be mindful that the body can pay a price later
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on in life for extreme flexion, force, and overuse at a young age. Extreme turnout of the
hips, arching the back beyond where there is strength to support it, and even elaborate
high kicks throw off the alignment and actually weaken the body over time.
The standards call for teachers of dance to provide their students with safe, rigorous,
and rich performing opportunities. Overtraining can become an issue in some dance
programs, particularly at the secondary level. Teachers must be aware and plan
instruction accordingly when multiple rehearsals or performances occur within narrow
timeframes. During these times the number of hours and intensity of physical activity
during those hours will accelerate, and therefore must be closely monitored to ensure
safety and prevent injury. Conversely, in many dance programs that do not have a lot of
performing or presenting opportunities, creating opportunities for students to reach
optimum performance levels is needed.
Students should feel safe in the dance studio or learning environment. The dance studio
environment should respect persons regardless of ethnicity, body type, gender, or
ability. Respectful, clear communication and student agency should be foundations of a
safe, creative environment. Students should trust their teacher(s) and feel that they are
cared for as a student. Teachers can build a trusting environment in many ways, such
as:
getting to know students, their hobbies, interests, who they are as individuals
sharing who they are with students, their hobbies, interests and experiences
extending trust to students, believing that they can succeed and follow through
balancing the need to hold students accountable and the need to extend grace
as appropriate
monitoring the use of humor in the classroom to ensure it is not deprecating or
demoralizing.
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If a student has a concern, they should not feel anxious to present this concern to their
teacher. Dance has the power to build self-esteem and emotional well-being. Teachers
should ensure training has a balanced approach, which considers the self-esteem and
emotional well-being of all students. The studio environment should foster mutually
respectful relationships between dancers and educators. Instruction, communication
and feedback should be positive and appropriate for grade level.
Establishing an inclusive environment must be a priority for teachers where all dancers,
including those with less experience or with unique needs, feel safe. Teachers must
know their students and start each school year by creating classroom norms that will
yield their vision of a safe, creative environment. Curriculum that allows for student
dancers to develop self-knowledge, provides on-going conversations about behavioral
norms and cross-cultural norms, and clearly identifies desired and accepted student
behaviors, strengthens students’ interpersonal problem solving skills. Maintaining a safe
environment enables all dancers to focus on the creative process rather than on
external or internal conflicts. When teachers model owning their own mistakes, students
are safe to do the same. Teachers should model that it is safe to make mistakes and
ask for help when it’s needed.
The primary responsibility for all teachers is to ensure the safety of their students. For
the dance teacher, a safe learning environment is based on the promotion of pro-social
behaviors among the group of dancers while also providing support for each individual
student to grow in the discipline. Pro-social behaviors are actions that benefit the group
as a whole such as helping others and hold the value of the group higher than that of
the individual. Establishing common norms in a middle school and high school setting
for what dancers can expect of each other and of their teacher can yield a greater
degree of respect. All students generally know how they wish to be treated and when
provided the opportunity, a dance class can articulate the behavioral expectations they
wish to adhere to as a classroom community.
Dance is an art, which fully utilizes the body. Touch is an essential part of teaching and
an essential way to efficiently correct a student. New dancers should always be
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instructed on why touch is used in dance and how students might be touched in dance
class in relationship to corrections and to direct placement and alignment. Sensitive
areas should always be avoided. Further, teachers should be familiar and sensitive to
the cultural norms of students regarding touch during dance. This requires teachers to
first know the cultural practices of their students. The most efficient and direct way to
investigate this is to open class discussion on the topic. Make this aspect of dance
learning clear and have an open discussion about the cultural norms of the students.
Teachers should honor the dialogue and discovery in this discussion and together with
the students find ways of working that achieve the goals of dance instruction while
protecting the physical boundaries practice in the students’ cultures. Teachers should
work to become proficient at verbal and visually descriptive cues to give students a
deeper understanding of how to self-correct errors.
Teachers should work to minimize students’ risk of injury by ensuring that the studio is
heated and cooled to temperatures appropriate to outdoor temperatures. Teachers
should design instruction with consideration of the specific needs of different types of
bodies. Instruction should incorporate physiologically sound warm up practices followed
by level specific and appropriate dance skill training and conclude with a cool down
activity at the end of class. Students should understand and be able to demonstrate
proficient functional alignment in basic non-locomotor and locomotor skills before
moving on to more complex tasks. Curriculum should encourage fit, well-nourished, and
healthy bodies that are ready to dance.
Safety of the studio environment is an essential consideration for teachers. Sprung
floors, secure barres, adequate lighting, correct ceiling height, and good ventilation are
required for safe studios. It is always a good habit to have regular safety checks.
Checks for small and large hazards in dance space should be done daily. Spills should
be cleaned up immediately. The dance floor should be kept clean and clear of hazards.
Students should always wear appropriate footwear on dance specific floors (i.e.,
Marley). Physical safety, based on individual student kinesthetic awareness, is
paramount as a foundation in the interactions between dancers of all ages in the
classroom. Providing adequate space and proper flooring is essential. Use of mirrors
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within the studio allows for visual feedback for groups of dancers to reinforce their
physical awareness.
Considerations for Dance Space and Facilities
When designating space on campus for dance instruction, the safety of the students
should be the top priority. While dance can be taught in a variety of places, depending
on the school site, it is vital to choose a location with a large open space for students to
move around in without bumping into furniture or each other. In an ideal setting, the
floor would be raised, there would be mirrors along two walls, ballet barres, space for
getting dressed (if students change into outfits for dance), and a dance floor (such as
Marley or a wooden floor prepared for dancing).
A working sound system capable of interfacing with all current technologies and ways of
amplifying playlists is needed in dance. Instruments for accompanists such as drums or
piano are also common and helpful when live music is available. Generally recorded
music is used in dance but opportunities to work with live musicians will teach students
how dance is done in different styles and in many cultures around the world.
A theater or built-in performing space is critical for a dance program and will support the
performance aspects of the art discipline and help students understand the total
theatrical context of lighting, sound, costumes, and audience that supports dance
performance.
Ideally the physical aspect of learning in dance is practiced on a sprung floor with a
safe, smooth wooden or Marley surface. Very few dance forms can be done safely on
carpet. A hard floor is preferred, such as wood or linoleum. Cement floors have no
“give” and are harder on the joints of both student and teacher. The knee joints have to
absorb more force and body weight when the floor is not sprung. When a dance floor is
not an option, then the gym floor, cafeteria floor or stage floor or classroom with the best
floor, free from obstructions, the largest space and the most natural light will often be
the best place available for dance.
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Dance space needs to be accessible to all and sudden changes of floor levels, steps
without ramps or areas made too narrow by furniture or other obstacles must be
rectified. All students need a space for self-expression and exploration, to learn how
disciplined focus and creative freedom go hand in hand and for building community and
camaraderie. The best facilities for dance are dedicated studio spaces for dance
technique, choreography and rehearsals that are appropriate for the art form. Spaces
must also facilitate students when they are not moving but are engaged in learning
through reading, writing or viewing. The standard classroom is usually not ideal but may
be the only option for both movement and non-movement learning in dance. The space
mainly needs to be free of obstructions, interruptions and objects or structures that may
cause injury.
Using a space that has furniture in it, such as a classroom, library, or multi-purpose
room, requires moving the tables and chairs out of the way. If dance classes take place
on the playground, an area on the blacktop that is removed from the other classes will
reduce the chance of students getting hit by a ball or distracted watching the other
students play.
It is important to set clear expectations for appropriate behavior within the space, such
as, avoid touching furniture or others while dancing. Further, when working outside or
with young students a perimeter, clearly marked with cones or other landmarks, for
students to dance within, is especially helpful. Students should practice doing
pedestrian movements, such as walking around in the space, before they are asked to
do larger movements, such as leaps. It is also prudent to provide a signal, such as an
auditory cue with the beating of a drum, or visual cue with the waving of a flag, to
indicate when students should stop what they are doing and look at the teacher.
Considerations for Dance Materials and Resources
Technology is an essential tool within the dance classroom for capturing and sharing
the temporal experience of dance and dance learning. Use of technology introduces
challenges and opportunities for teachers and students. Norms for use of technology in
teaching dance must align with local educational agency policies. Teachers can
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reinforce standards of professional integrity by educating students about the school or
district policies for use of technology, copyright and intellectual property laws, and
safety concerns when using technologies and the internet for research and creative
endeavors.
Video of learning in dance can easily be posted on social media channels. This means
that establishing and reinforcing classroom rules regarding capturing photos and videos
is essential. In some settings, student capturing of video may be encouraged within
boundaries for student learning. In other settings is may be necessary to restrict
students from capturing of video. All decisions related to sharing on social media must
be informed by maturity of students and LEA policies.
Similarly, teachers of dance must consult their school site and district policies regarding
parental/guardian consent for use of photos or videos in a public setting. Additionally,
teachers must have the highest degree of professional integrity regarding citation of
names of choreographers for any work and teach students about the importance of
intellectual property rights as it relates to respecting artistic entrepreneurship.
Visual materials that inspire, represent the diversity of the dancers and community, and
may be multilingual promote dance learning and culture. Posting the dance standards
on the walls along with visuals to chart process and progress are also helpful resources
for the dance space. Students should have access to books and technology that help
them study dance. A means of recording and playing back student work and a screen
for projection and are also ideal in the dance classroom. Barres such as those used in
ballet are helpful but not absolutely necessary for forms that are not ballet. Classroom
flexibility can be maximized with portable barres. A seating area or fold-out bleachers
are also ideal resources in a dance space. Props for younger dancers especially help
concretize learning at the developmental stages where that is crucial, so storage
cabinets to house musical instruments, props, scarves, foam rollers, resistance bands,
and other items that assist and facilitate dance learning are useful.
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Table 3.25: The following list is not exhaustive, but provides guidance to items are that are valuable supports for student learning in dance education settings.
Category Materials and ConsiderationsClassroom Amenities
Mirrors along front and at least one side of the dance classroom will provide visual feedback for students as they grow in their kinesthetic understanding. Side mirrors are especially helpful for students learning to use their peripheral vision to gauge their physical placement in space.
Barres, if appropriate to the genres taught within the curriculum, can be wall-mounted, floor-mounted or portable. Students learning ballet and beginning tap as well as cardio barre workouts will benefit from barres.
Storage cabinets within the classroom are essential for securing equipment and materials.
Teachers need cabinets that can be secured and locked.
Students need cabinets with an individual bin for storing dance shoes, written work and other essentials.
Large whiteboards should be provided for capturing classroom instruction.
Equipment Headphones
Sound system options are critical to the dance classroom space. Students and teachers will need a variety of options including an all-studio sound system as well as a set of portable wireless speakers for small group activities.
A teacher computer station with music editing, video editing software
A student computer(s) station with music editing, video editing software
A classroom set of computers for completing writing assignments and access to an online platform for exchanging and saving work
Video display large enough for all class viewing of videos to examine and refine student movement as well as for learning movement and watching dance history footage.
Video camera or tablet for filming student work
Materials Percussion instruments (e.g., hand drums, egg shaker) can provide options for teachers for capturing student attention and also for setting rhythms within class activities.
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Category Materials and Considerations Foam rollers for students to practice myofascial release.
Yoga mats and yoga blocks for strength training and flexibility work.
Resistance bands for students for strength training and flexibility work.
Small whiteboards and whiteboard markers for practicing writing motif notation are especially helpful to students.
Sketchbooks are essential for each student choreographer to generate ideas and concepts for their work and for capturing the creative process.
Costumes Costuming for performances
Special care must be given to consider appropriate costuming based on the nature of the movement planned. Various fabrics can be slippery for partnering work.
Care must be taken to ensure that program owned costuming is retained for future use.
Visual Aids A muscular system anatomical chart poster will support student understanding of their physical body.
Dance medicine and science posters can support student learning for a variety of concepts including turnout, bone health, motor learning, stretching and more.
International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Dance Medicine and
Science Posters (https://www.iadms.org/page/293).
Primary Sources in Dance
Primary sources in dance can enrich instruction in all four artistic processes. Using
primary sources allows a student to become actively involved in the learning process
and can provide a hook to engage student’s interest in a concept or subject. Teaching
with primary sources promotes authentic student inquiry and builds students’ critical
thinking skills.
Examples of Primary Sources in Dance:
Artifacts
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Video Recordings
Sound Recordings
Photographs
Works of Art
Spoken Word
Primary sources help support student driven and student-centered unit and lesson
design. Incorporating primary sources into dance instruction lets students view the
highest caliber of dancing and learn from world renowned choreographers or dancers
from throughout time. When learning about cultural dances, viewing the dances
performed by dancers of that culture, such as watching classically trained Indian
dancers perform Bharatanatyam, provides authenticity to the dance being studied.
Reading the writing of or listening to choreographers such as Martha Graham or Alvin
Ailey speak about the origin of their style of dance or the intent for a specific piece of
choreography, provides the student with insight that impacts the perception and
understanding of the works. When learning about ballet, students can gain a sense of
the potential of a ballerina by watching a video of professional dancers to see how they
extend their legs higher in the air at the height of a grand jeté. The use of primary
sources in dance gives authentic voices to dances from around the world, throughout
time.
Students should compare and evaluate information found in different sources and to
evaluate their reliability. This helps students understand that sources can provide
distinct types of information and gain skill in interpreting primary sources from
secondary sources. Students can begin the process by asking questions about a
primary source and what can be learned from the source. Once identified, students can
continue their investigation diving deeper into the primary source, which can lead to
secondary source interpretations on the subject matter that is under investigation. In the
process of examining a primary source students can be provided with guiding questions
prompting them to closely observe, examine the context of the source, the intended
message of the source and techniques used to communicate that message. Students
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should support their analysis of the source with evidence and use this evidence to
determine the credibility and validity of the source. When using primary sources, the
Library of Congress (LOC) Using Primary Sources Guide for teachers
(http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/) leads educators on how to teach
students to use primary sources while promoting a spirit of inquiry, using the following
steps:
1. Engage students with primary sources.
2. Promote student inquiry.
3. Assess how students apply critical thinking and analysis skills to primary sources.
When students have the opportunity to go through the inquiry process, they are
developing their higher order thinking skills to think actively instead of passively,
drawing their own ideas and conclusions, while developing more questions to further
their own learning.
Many online libraries and universities also have pages for students to access a variety
of primary sources, such as the Guide to Online Primary Sources: Arts, from University
of California San Diego (https://ucsd.libguides.com/c.php?g=90745&p=585838).
Students should be given opportunities to explore many different online or local libraries
and discover a variety of primary resources. As students continue to have exposure to
studying primary sources, they will continue to develop an understanding of the world
from a unique perspective and gain empathy to understand others and how history has
shaped the art form they are studying.
Artistic Citizenship in Dance
Student Learning in Artistic Citizenship
As performing artists in dance, students have unique opportunities in class to share
their art form, and to experience, first hand, the feeling and outcomes of artistic
experiences. Dance, by its very nature, includes the element of performance, articulated
in the Performing standards. Dance educators need to provide students with authentic
educational experiences, on both a small and large scale, for sharing their artist
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expression with a larger audience. With the internet, the life of the sharing exists as long
as the file is held by the platform, or longer, with individuals that downloaded the
performance. Performance is very rarely private. As such, students must be taught to
understand the conditions, ethics and legalities of sharing across the web.
Professional integrity builds a foundation for trust in relationships, both in and outside of
the classroom. Through the use of digital tools, immediate access and connection to the
larger world is simple, and with such ease of communication students must learn how to
act both responsibly and judiciously to engage in professional and educational
excellence with a high degree of personal integrity. Students need to learn how to build
healthy and ethical interpersonal relationships with peers, and others, both in person
and online and must have opportunities to professionally engage with peers and the
larger world of dance through multiple mediums and modalities.
The internet is vast and has restructured what and how intellectual property is viewed,
engaged with, and retained. With the ease of access and the privacy of digital devices,
dance educators should take note that all ideas, art, images, sounds, music recordings,
and text, is the intellectual property of its creator. The very concept of intellectual
property in the performing and creative arts should also be explicitly taught so that
students experience the concept of intellectual property as daily instruction, and that
they, themselves, regardless of age are the creators of such valuable outcomes. This
comes into play as students brainstorm ideas in class and as they create. Intellectual
property is defined as:
“…creations of the mind: inventions; literary and artistic works; and symbols,
names and images used in commerce. Intellectual property is divided into two
categories: Industrial Property includes patents for inventions, trademarks,
industrial designs and geographical indications. Copyright covers literary works
(such as novels, poems and plays), films, music, artistic works (e.g., drawings,
paintings, photographs and sculptures) and architectural design. Rights related to
copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of
phonograms in their recordings, and broadcasters in their radio and television
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programs.”
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/intproperty/450/wipo_pub_450.pdf
Special consideration should be made to not infringe on the copyright of others.
Teachers should support students in valuing their own dance artworks and to respect
others’ rights to their own content. Students should learn the requirements related to
working in dance as a creator, such as paying for royalties and securing the rights to
any or all pieces they choose to use in their projects. Fair use aspects of copyright laws,
which relates to copying of copyrighted materials without copyright owners’ permission,
must be part of the students’ instruction in dance. Teachers should help students know
and understand fair use as it applies to dance. Teachers and students must be aware of
the legal ramifications of copyright infringement. Current information can be accessed
by teachers through online copyright and fair use portals and information centers.
Implications for Teachers
It is imperative that schools and/or districts adhere to the law for appropriate use of
music, images, and resources in classroom and production use. Visual and/or audio
recording of performances using copyrighted material is prohibited for distribution.
Recording a performance is only permissible for school and/or district archival purposes
(unless a special license has been paid to do so). Teachers need to be very diligent in
using copyrighted images (e.g., graphics, multi-media projection, scenic elements and
backdrop projections) and any music selections (e.g., dance music, sound effects,
underscoring, or pre- and post-show) used in performance.
Developing Artistic Entrepreneurs
Throughout their TK–12 dance education, students learn and have opportunities to
experience direct and peripheral dance related careers. Due to the advances in
technology, communication systems, including the internet, students can while still in
school become artistic entrepreneurs, performers, and creators. As discussed earlier,
students must learn and understand from safety, monetary, and legal standpoints the
potential pitfalls, and benefits that come with being an artistic entrepreneur. Secondary
programs which are aligned with Career Technical Education programs provide learning
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experiences as part of their capstone courses. Within those capstone courses, students
can be given the opportunity to select an area of focus in areas such as but not limited
to the following:
Production Management: exploring the technical support of dance including but
not limited to stage management and direction, sound, lighting design, house
management, costuming and music editing
Choreography: exploring the application of choreography in different settings.
Students on this track can take responsibility for creating choreography for
community, school and public events
Fundraising/Promotions: exploring fundraising and promotion of dance related
events. Students in this track would be responsible for developing promotional
materials for events, managing social media accounts and creating and
managing fundraisers
Educational Outreach: Students on this track explore dance related careers in
education. Students work on educational outreach events and participate in
events in which students can be teachers (youth clinics and/or middle school
dance days). This track may also provide an opportunity for students to create
dance related lecture demonstrations for younger student groups
As a part of these teams, students perform all the administrative tasks and strategies
associated with organizing and managing these areas of focus under the guidance of
their teacher. Such projects and tasks have real world implications. For example, the
production management team technically manages their school’s spring dance concert.
The fundraising team creates and executes their own fundraising event. Students play
vital roles in making sure the projects are successful creating an added value to their
overall learning and development of personal and group responsibility. Upon the
completion of these projects, students have developed a range of skills including
production management, financial management, marketing and public relations as well
becoming a proficient performer.
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In order to prepare students for long range and high stakes projects, students must be
provided the opportunity to learn these skills in practice and real situations at smaller
scale with levels of responsibility that become more significant as students become
more confident. Teams can be organized by grade level with more experienced
students providing leadership and training to less experienced students. Eventually, the
more experienced students would begin to hand off leadership to younger students as
the term progresses.
Guiding students toward careers in dance requires both a focus on content and skill
preparation as well as a focus on teaching students strategic or soft skills. Dance
inherently lends well toward teaching students the value of relationships; special
attention must be given to training students about how the role of building and
maintaining positive relationships is critical in developing a career as an artist. A dancer
must have the tools to advance their career interpersonally as well as within the digital
sphere. Dancers within programs aligned with the Arts, Media and Entertainment
Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards will benefit from opportunities
to develop a resume, a website, a reel of their dance works, to practice mock auditions
and to have knowledge of graphic design and marketing techniques. Simultaneously,
dancers also benefit from learning all sides of production work from planning budgets to
artistic direction to choreography. Creating opportunities for student dancers to meet
and interact with individuals in the industry as guest speakers or through residencies is
valuable. Moreover, hosting a panel of guest speakers from a wide range of arts-related
careers can help the student who loves dance, but is not sure what to do with it after
high school, see greater possibilities.
It is important to note that the career outcomes for high school dance students are not
necessarily specific to the arts, media and entertainment industry sector. While
graduates can consider careers in choreography, performance or teaching, dance
education can also inform a variety of other arts-related careers such as physical
therapy, nursing, personal training, teaching dance, Pilates, or yoga as well as serving
as a dance-movement therapist, psychologist and counselor.
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Through an introduction to jobs in and related to the dance field, students can
understand that there are people who make their living as professions in and related to
dance.
Snapshot: Sample Activities for Student Investigation into Careers in Dance
Ask the dance teacher about her/his own dance career; understand that teaching
dance is a dance profession.
Participate in a guest visit by professional dancers or choreographers, view a
short presentation of their work, learn some of the movements, and hear them
speak about their life in dance.
Participate in a hands-on workshop with a professional in a dance-related field
like a musician or costume designer.
Contribute to a chart of professions in and related to dance, learning the
definitions of: dancer, choreographer for dance, musical theatre, drama, opera,
film and video, dance teacher, composer, costume designer, notation specialist,
artistic director, casting director, dance therapist and dance injury specialist,
dance writer, critic, researcher.
(Blueprint for Teaching and Learning 2015).
Conclusion
Emphasis Quote
Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of
teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.
Alvin Ailey—Dancer, Choreographer
All California students must have opportunities and access to a rigorous, sequential,
standards-based dance education that leads to artistic literacy in dance. Through a TK–
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12 sequential, standards-based education in dance students become increasingly fluent
in dance literacy that exercises the creative practices in creating and recreating dance,
and offers opportunities for students to perform and respond to dance. Students are
able to connect, synthesize, and relate their new dance knowledge, and personal
experiences to engaging in and with dance while deepening their understanding of the
world as inquisitive self-motivated lifelong learners.
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Glossary of Terms for California Arts Standards: Dance
The glossary for the California Arts Standards is intended to define select terms
essential to understanding and communicating about the standards. The glossary
contains only those terms that are highlighted in each artistic discipline’s performance
standards. The glossary definitions explain the context or point of view, from the
perspective of the artistic discipline, regarding the use of terms within the standards.
Glossary definitions are not meant to be an exhaustive list or used as curriculum.
Aesthetic: A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty.
Alignment: The process of positioning the skeletal and muscular system to support effective functionality.
Alternative performance venue: A performance site other than a standard Western style theater (for example, classroom, site specific venue, or natural environment.)
Anatomical principles: The way the human body's skeletal, muscular and vascular systems work separately and in coordination.
Artistic criteria: Aspects of craft and skill used to fulfill artistic intent.
Artistic expression: The manifestations of artistic intent though dance, drama music, poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture or other artistic media. In dance, this involves the dance and the dancers within a context.
Artistic intent: The purpose, main idea, and expressive or communicative goals(s) of a dance composition study, work, or performance.
Artistic statement: An artist’s verbal or written introduction of their work from their own perspective to convey the deeper meaning or purpose.
Body patterning: Neuromuscular patterns (for example, core-distal, head-tail, homologous [upper-lower], homo-lateral [same-side], cross-lateral [crossing the body midline].)
Body-use: The ways in which movement patterns and body parts are used in movement and dance practice; descriptive method of identifying patterns.
Bound flow movement: An “effort element” from Laban Movement Analysis in which energy flow is constricted.
Capstone Project: A culminating performance-based assessment that determines what 12th graders should know and be able to do in various educational disciplines; usually
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based on research and the development of a major product or project that is an extension of the research.
Choreographic devices: Manipulation of dance movement, sequences, or phrases (e.g., repetition, inversion, accumulation, cannon, etc.)
Codified movement: Common motion or motions set in a particular style that often have specific names and expectations associated with it.
Context cues: Information obtained from the dance that helps one understand or comprehend meaning and intent from a movement, group of movements, or a dance as a whole; requires seeing relationships between movements and making inferences about the meaning or intent often gleaned from visual, auditory, or sensory stimuli.
Contrapuntal: An adjective that describes the noun counterpoint; music that has at least two melodic lines (voices) played simultaneously against each other; in dance, at least two movement patterns, sequences or phrases danced simultaneously using different body parts or performed by different dancers.
Cultural movement practice: Physical movements of a dance that are associated with a particular country, community, or people.
Dance literacy: The total experience of dance learning that includes the doing and knowing about dance: dance skills and techniques, dance making, knowledge and understanding of dance vocabulary, dance history, dance from different cultures, dance genres, repertory, performers and choreographers, dance companies, and dance notation and preservation.
Dance movement principles: Fundamentals related to the craft and skill with which dance movement is performed (for example, the use of dynamic alignment, breath support, core support, rotation, initiation and sequencing, weight shift, etc.).
Dance phrase: A brief sequence of related movements that have a sense of continuity and artistic or rhythmic completion.
Dance structures: The organization of choreography and movement to fulfill the artistic intent of a dance or dance study (for example, AB, ABA or theme and variation); often referred to as choreographic form.
Dance study: A short dance that is comprised of several dance phrases based on an artistic idea.
Dance techniques: The tools and skills needed to produce a particular style of movement.
Dance terminology: Vocabulary used to describe dance and dance experiences.
simple dance terminology (Tier 1/PreK–2): basic pedestrian language (for
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example, locomotor words such as walk, run, march, slither; and non-locomotor words such as bend, twist, turn, etc.).
basic dance terminology (Tier 2/grades 3–5): vocabulary used to describe dance movement techniques, structures, works, and experiences that are widely shared in the field of dance (for example, stage terminology, compositional vocabulary, language defining dance structures and devices, anatomical references, etc.).
genre-specific dance terminology (Tier 3/grades 6 up): words used to describe movement within specific dance forms such as ballet, contemporary, culturally-specific dance, hip-hop, jazz, modern, tap, and others.
Dance work: A complete dance that has a beginning, middle (development), and end.
Dynamics: The qualities or characteristics of movement which lend expression and style; also called “efforts,” or “energy (for example, lyrical, sustained, quick, light, or strong).
Elements of dance: The key components of movement; movement of the body using space, time, and energy; often referred to as the elements of movement.
Embody: To physicalize a movement, concept or idea through the body.
Energy: The dynamic quality, force, attack, weight, and flow of movement.
Evaluative criteria: The definition of values and characteristics with which dance can be assessed; factors to be considered to attain an aesthetically satisfying dance composition or performance.
Explore: Investigate multiple movement possibilities to learn more about an idea.
Free flowing movement: An “effort element” from Laban Movement Analysis in which energy is continuous.
Functional alignment: The organization of the skeleton and musculature in a relationship to gravity that supports safe and efficient movement while dancing.
General space: Spatial orientation that is not focused towards one area of a studio or stage.
Genre: A category of dance characterized by similarities in form, style, purpose, or subject matter (for example, African, ballet, ballroom, hip hop, modern, Polynesian, etc.).
Kinesthetic awareness: Pertaining to sensations and understanding of bodily movement.
Locomotor: Movement that travels from one location to another or in a pathway
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through space (for example, in PreK, walk, run, tip-toe, slither, roll, crawl, jump, march, gallop; in Kindergarten, the addition of prance, hop, skip, slide, leap).
Mind-body principles: Concepts explored and/or employed to support body-mind connections (for example, breath, awareness of the environment, grounding, movement initiation, use of imagery, intention, inner-outer, stability-mobility).
Movement characteristics: The qualities, elements, or dynamics that describe or define a movement.
Movement phrase: A brief sequence of related movements that have a sense of continuity and artistic or rhythmic completion.
Movement problem: A specific focus that requires one find a solution and complete a task; gives direction and exploration in composition.
Movement vocabulary: Codified or personal movement characteristics that define a movement style.
Negative space: The area (space) around and between the dancer(s) or dance images(s) in a dance.
Non-locomotor: Movement that remains in place; movement that does not travel from one location to another or in a pathway through space for example, in PreK, bend, twist, turn, open, close; in Kindergarten, swing, sway, spin, reach, pull).
Performance etiquette: Performance values and expected behaviors when rehearsing or performing (for instance, no talking while the dance is in progress, no chewing gum, neat and appropriate appearance, dancers do not call out to audience members who are friends).
Performance practices: Commonly accepted behaviors and practices when rehearsing and performing on stage (for example, production order is technical rehearsal, dress rehearsal, then performance; dancers warm up on stage and must leave when the stage manager tells them; when "places" are called, dancers must be ready to enter the performing space).
Personal space: The area of space directly surrounding one’s body extending as far as a person can reach; also called the kinesphere.
Polyrhythmic: In music, several rhythms layered on top of one another and played simultaneously; in dance, embodying several rhythms simultaneously in different body parts.
Production elements: Aspects of performance that produce theatrical effects (for example, costumes, make up, sound, lighting, media, props and scenery).
Production terminology: Words commonly used to refer to the stage, performance
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setting, or theatrical aspects of dance presentation.
Project: A confident presentation of one's body and energy to communicate movement and meaning vividly to an audience.
Rhythm: The patterning or structuring of time through movement or sound.
Sound environment: Sound accompaniment for dancing other than music (for example, street noise, ocean surf, bird calls, spoken word).
Space: Components of dance involving direction, pathways, facings, levels, shapes, and design; the location where a dance takes place; the element of dance referring to the cubic area of a room, on a stage, or in other environments.
Spatial design: Pre-determined use of directions, levels, pathways, formations, and body shapes.
Stimuli: A thing or event that inspires action, feeling, or thought.
Style: Dance that has specific movement characteristics, qualities, or principles that give it distinctive identity (for example, Graham technique is a style of Modern Dance; rhythm tap is a style of Percussive Dance; Macedonian folk dance is a style of International Folk dance; Congolese dance is a style of African Dance).
Technical dance skills: The degree of physical proficiency a dancer achieves within a dance style or technique (for example, coordination, form, strength, speed and range).
Tempi: Different paces or speeds of music, or underlying beats or pulses, used in a dance work or composition (singular: tempo).
Tempo: The pace or speed of a pulse or beat underlying music or movement (plural: tempi or tempos).
Theme: A dance idea that is stated choreographically.
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